Acts 2:17

Acts 2:17

15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, ^asince it is only the third hour of the day.

16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

17 ‘And^a it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
^bThat I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and ^cyour daughters shall prophesy,
Your young men shall see visions,
Your old men shall dream dreams.

18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
^aAnd they shall prophesy.

19 ^aI will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath:
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

20 ^aThe sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.

21 And it shall come to pass
That ^awhoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.’

22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you ^aby miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know—

23 Him, ^abeing delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, ^byou have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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In the last days (en taiv esxataiv hmeraiv). Joel does not have precisely these words, but he defines "those days" as being "the day of the Lord" (cf. Isaiah 2:2; Micah 4:1).

I will pour forth (ekxew). Future active indicative of ekxew. This future like edomai and piomai is without tense sign, probably like the present in the futuristic sense (Robertson, Grammar, p. 354). Westcott and Hort put a different accent on the future, but the old Greek had no accent. The old Greek had ekxeusw. This verb means to pour out.

Of my Spirit (apo tou pneumatov). This use of apo (of) is either because of the variety in the manifestations of the Spirit (1Co. 12) or because the Spirit in his entirety remains with God (Holtzmann, Wendt). But the Hebrew has it: "I will pour out my Spirit" without the partitive idea in the LXX.

And your daughters (kai ai qugaterev umwn). Anna is called a prophetess in Luke 2:36 and the daughters of Philip prophesy (Acts 21:9) and verse Acts 2:18 (handmaidens). See also I Corinthians 11:5 (profhtousa).

Visions (oraseiv). Late word for the more common orama, both from oraw, to see. In Revelation 4:3 it means appearance, but in Revelation 9:17 as here an ecstatic revelation or vision.

Dream dreams (enupnioiv enupniasqhsontai). Shall dream with (instrumental case) dreams. First future passive of enupniazw from enupniov (en and upnov, in sleep), a common late word. Only here in the N.T. (this from Joel as all these verses Acts 2:17-21 are) and Judges 1:8.

Yea and (kai ge). Intensive particle ge added to kai (and), an emphatic addition (=Hebrew vegam).

Servants (doulouv),

handmaidens (doulav). Slaves, actual slaves of men. The humblest classes will receive the Spirit of God (cf. I Corinthians 1:26-31). But the word "prophesy" here is not in the LXX (or the Hebrew).

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