Joel
historical figure · 4 works · 9 mentions · 9 anchored passages
one of the twelve prophets · the prophet Joel
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
Prophet cited for the statement that the Creator announces his Christ to men.
Therefore, if Christ indeed was being announced by the Creator — who consolidates the thunder, and shuts up the spirit, and announces his Christ to men, according to the prophet Joel — if all the hope of the Jews, not to say of the Gentiles too, was set upon the revelation of Christ, then without doubt they were shown to be such as would not acknowledge and not understand him, the powers of acknow …
the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and illustrious day of the Lord come.
and, In the last days I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh, according to Joel.
De Carnis Resurrectione
Old Testament prophet quoted for the promise that God's spirit will be poured out on all flesh.
" It is noted in Genesis that God says, "My spirit shall not remain in these men, because they are flesh.
For after He had declared, "And then Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the nations, until the times of the nations be fulfilled" — those, namely, to be enrolled by God and gathered with the remnants of Israel — thence already, unto the world and unto the age, He proclaims, according to Joel and Daniel and the whole council of the prophets, signs to come in the sun and in the moon and in the stars …
Stromata
Minor prophet quoted for the promise of the Spirit poured out upon all flesh.
For plainly, through Joel, one of the twelve prophets, it is said:
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The Hebrew prophet quoted as commanding the sanctification of a fast.
For Joel too cried out, "Sanctify a fast and a treatment," foreseeing even then that other apostles and prophets too would sanctify a fast and proclaim offices that treat God.