Lux Domini
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

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Interpretation

The promise began to be fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out, and it was continued in the converting grace and miraculous gifts conferred on both Jews and Gentiles. The judgments of God upon a sinful world, only go before the judgment of the world in the last day.

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This thought runs through Joel 2:28-32.