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<div2 id="Joel.i" n="i" next="Joel.ii" prev="Joel" progress="79.79%" title="Introduction">
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<h2 id="Joel.i-p0.1">Joel</h2>
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<hr/>
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<pb id="Joel.i-Page_1202" n="1202"/>
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<div class="Center" id="Joel.i-p0.3">
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<p id="Joel.i-p1" shownumber="no"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="Joel.i-p1.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="Joel.i-p1.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="Joel.i-p1.3">OF THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET</h5>
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<h2 id="Joel.i-p1.4">J O E L.</h2>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="Joel.i-p2" shownumber="no"><span class="smallcaps" id="Joel.i-p2.1">We</span> are
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altogether uncertain concerning the time when this prophet
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prophesied; it is probable that it was about the same time Amos
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prophesied, not for the reason that the rabbin give, "Because Amos
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begins his prophecy with that wherewith Joel concludes his, <i>The
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Lord shall roar out of Zion,</i>" but for the reason Dr. Lightfoot
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gives, "Because he speaks of the same judgments of locusts, and
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drought, and fire, that Amos laments, which is an intimation that
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they appeared about the same time, Amos in Israel and Joel in
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Judah. Hosea and Obadiah prophesied about the same time; and it
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appears that Amos prophesied in the days of Jeroboam, the second
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king of Israel, <scripRef id="Joel.i-p2.2" osisRef="Bible:Amos.7.10" parsed="|Amos|7|10|0|0" passage="Am 7:10">Amos vii.
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10</scripRef>. God sent a variety of prophets, that they might
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strengthen the hands one of another, and that out of the mouth of
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two or three witnesses every word might be established. In this
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prophecy, I. The desolations made by hosts of noxious insects is
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described, <scripRef id="Joel.i-p2.3" osisRef="Bible:Joel.1.1-Joel.2.11" parsed="|Joel|1|1|2|11" passage="Joe 1:1-2:11"><i>ch.</i> i. and part
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of <i>ch.</i> ii.</scripRef> II. The people are hereupon called to
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repentance, <scripRef id="Joel.i-p2.4" osisRef="Bible:Joel.2.12-Joel.2.17" parsed="|Joel|2|12|2|17" passage="Joe 2:12-17"><i>ch.</i>
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ii.</scripRef> III. Promises are made of the return of mercy upon
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their repentance (<scripRef id="Joel.i-p2.5" osisRef="Bible:Joel.2.18-Joel.2.32" parsed="|Joel|2|18|2|32" passage="Joe 2:18-32"><i>ch.</i>
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ii.</scripRef>), and promises of the pouring out of the Spirit in
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the latter days. IV. The cause of God's people is pleaded against
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their enemies, whom God would in due time reckon with (<scripRef id="Joel.i-p2.6" osisRef="Bible:Joel.3.1-Joel.3.21" parsed="|Joel|3|1|3|21" passage="Joe 3:1-21"><i>ch.</i> iii.</scripRef>); and glorious
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things are spoken of the gospel—Jerusalem and of the prosperity
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and perpetuity of it.</p>
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