OLD TESTAMENT

Joel 2:30

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I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.

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Verse 30. Wonders. Many prodigies preceded the persecution of Epiphanes, the death of Christ, the ruin of the temple, and more will be seen before the day of judgment. Though we cannot prove the same with respect to Cambyses, it suffices that the people were thrown into the utmost consternation (verse 2. 11) when he forebade the building of the temple, (1 Ezra 4:6) and designed to plunder them. Ezechiel (38:11) speaks of the same event, as the Jews assert. Ctesias also mentions that when he offered sacrifice, the victims would not bleed; and that his wife, Roxana, brought forth a child without a head, implying, according to the magi, that he should have no heir. His mother also frequently appeared, and reproached him with the murder of his brother. See Calmet. 3:15. Ezekiel 38:22.

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