I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 19. I will shew wonders, and so forth These prodigies are commonly expounded of those that shall forerun the last day; or of the prognostics of the destruction of Jerusalem, which was a figure of the destruction of the world. Witham.—Blood, fire, and so forth These prodigies were accomplished at our Saviour’s death, or before the destruction of Jerusalem. We must not expect in these prophecies, where the descriptions are so grand, pathetic, and hyperbolical, to find that the accomplishment of them is literal, and precisely according to terms. The sun shall suffer an eclipse, the moon turn red, like blood, and so forth Calmet.