{"id":22346,"date":"2022-09-24T09:28:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T14:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-joel-224\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T14:28:19","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-joel-224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-joel-224\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joel 2:24"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 24<\/strong>. The reversal of <span class='bible'>Joe 1:10-12<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em> the floors<\/em> ] i.e. the threshing-floors which, however, were not like our threshing-floors: see the description in the footnote on p. 227.<\/p>\n<p><em> fats<\/em> ] i.e. (as we should say) <em> vats, fat<\/em> being an old form of <em> vat<\/em>, A.S. <em> ft<\/em>, Germ. <em> Fass<\/em>: so constantly in A.V., as <span class='bible'>Joe 3:13<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Hag 2:16<\/span>. Both the <em> gath<\/em>, in which the grapes were trodden (<span class='bible'>Neh 13:15<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Isa 63:2<\/span>, where <em> winefat<\/em> is wrong), and the <em> yeeb<\/em> (lit. <em> a place hollowed out<\/em>), in which the expressed juice was received (cf. on <span class='bible'>Amo 9:13<\/span>), were commonly excavated in the rock (cf. <span class='bible'>Isa 5:2<\/span>, &ldquo;and also hewed out in it a <em> yeeb<\/em>,&rdquo; or <em> winefat<\/em> [R.V. <em> marg<\/em>.]): and remains of those dug in ancient times are still to be seen in Palestine. Robinson ( <em> B.R<\/em> [44] 3:137) describes one: on the upper side of a ledge of rock, a shallow vat had been dug out, 8 feet square, and 15 inches deep; two feet below there was another smaller vat, 4 feet square and 3 feet deep; the grapes were trodden in the shallow upper vat, and the hole by which the juice was drawn off into the lower vat still remained. Cf. <em> ib.<\/em> p. 381 (a similar arrangement in use in 1852). Sometimes there were two such lower receptacles, communicating with each other, attached to the <em> gath;<\/em> and Schick ( <em> Z.D.P.V<\/em> [45] 10:1887, p. 146 f.) describes one with three: the must, in such cases, would be transferred from one to the other in order gradually to clarify.<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:3em'> [44] <em> .R.<\/em>  Edw. Robinson, <em> Biblical Researches in Palestine<\/em> (ed. 2, 1856).<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:3em'> [45] <em> .D.P.V.<\/em>  <em> Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palstina-Vereins<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em> overflow<\/em> ] <span class='bible'>Joe 3:13<\/span>. Comp. <span class='bible'>Pro 3:10<\/span>, &ldquo;and thy vats shall burst with must ( <em> or<\/em> new wine).&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em> wine and oil<\/em> ] <strong> new wine<\/strong> (or <strong> must<\/strong>) <em> and<\/em> <strong> fresh oil<\/strong> (as <span class='bible'>Joe 1:10<\/span>). Olives are now usually crushed by a large circular stone revolving in a kind of mortar; but formerly (see <span class='bible'>Mic 6:15<\/span>; and cf. the name <em> Gethsemane<\/em>, &ldquo;oil-press&rdquo;) they were trodden by the feet of men, like grapes.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>The floors, <\/B>where they thrashed their corn, shall be full of wheat, the best and most useful grain, the bread corn for mans life and support. <\/P> <P><B>The fats, <\/B>the vessels into which the liquor ran out of the press, <\/P> <P><B>shall overflow with wine and oil; <\/B>there shall be of the grape and olive enough to fill the vessels, nay, to make them run over, though the care of good husbands will save it; for what was said, <span class='bible'>Joe 2:22<\/span>, is here fulfilled, the vine doth yield its strength. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P><B>24.<\/B> The effect of the seasonablerains shall be abundance of all articles of food.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown&#8217;s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And the floors shall be full of wheat<\/strong>,&#8230;. The churches of Christ, which will now be in Judea, and in the Gentile world, which are his &#8220;floors&#8221;, <span class='bible'>Mt 3:12<\/span>; and which will be set up everywhere through the preaching of the Gospel, the descent of the former and latter rain; these will be full of precious souls gathered in, compared to wheat, and of the choice and excellent, doctrines of the Gospel, and of all spiritual provisions, <span class='bible'>Mt 13:30<\/span>;<\/p>\n<p><strong>and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil<\/strong>; with the wine of Gospel doctrine, and the oil of true grace; there shall be a flow, an overflow, a redundancy of these, both in the ministers of the word and private Christians, in whom the grace of God shall abound and superabound; see <span class='bible'>Ro 5:20<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Effects of the rain. <span class='bible'>Joe 2:24<\/span>. <em> &ldquo;And the barns become full of corn, and the vats flow over with new wine and oil.<\/em> <span class='bible'>Joe 2:25<\/span>. <em> And I repay to you the years which the locust has eaten, the licker, and the devourer, and the gnawer, my great army which I sent among you.<\/em> <span class='bible'>Joe 2:26<\/span>. <em> And ye will eat, eat and be satisfied, and praise the name of Jehovah your God, who hath done wondrously with you; and my people shall not be put to shame to all eternity.<\/em> <span class='bible'>Joe 2:27<\/span>. <em> And ye will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and I (am) Jehovah your God, and none else, and my people shall not be put to shame to all eternity.&rdquo; <\/em> <span class='bible'>Joe 2:24<\/span> is practically the same as <em> <span class='bible'>Joe 2:19<\/span><\/em>, and the counterpart to <span class='bible'>Joe 1:10-12<\/span>.  from  , to run, <em> hiphil <\/em> only here and <span class='bible'>Joe 3:13<\/span>, to run over, to overflow; <em> pilel <\/em>, <span class='bible'>Psa 65:10<\/span>, <em> shoqeq <\/em>, to cause to overflow.  , the vats of the wine-presses, into which the wine flows when trodden out; here it also applies to the vats of the oil-presses, into which the oil ran as it was pressed out. Through these bountiful harvests God would repay to the people the years, i.e., the produce of the years, which the locusts ate. The plural, <em> shanm <\/em>, furnishes no certain proof that Joel referred in ch. 1 to swarms of locusts of several successive years; but is used either with indefinite generality, as in <span class='bible'>Gen 21:7<\/span>, or with a distinct significance, viz., as a poetical expression denoting the greatness and violence of the devastation. On the different names of the locusts, see at <span class='bible'>Joe 1:4<\/span>. It is to be observed here that the copula stands before the last two names, but not before <em> yeleq <\/em>, so that the last three names belong to one another as co-ordinates (Hitzig), i.e., they are merely different epithets used for <em> &#8216;arbeh <\/em>, the locusts.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Keil &amp; Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> He goes on with the same subject in this verse, and shows the effects of rain; for when the earth is irrigated and satiated with sufficient moisture, it brings forth fruit, rich and plentiful. God then will cause that the rains shall not be useless, for the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine as well as oil. He afterwards adds &#8212; <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Calvin&#8217;s Complete Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 24-27<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> The heavens are open once more, the drought will come to an end, the locusts will disappear, the harvest and vintage will be plentiful, so that the presence of Jehovah will indeed be realized. 24. A repetition by the prophet of the thought expressed by Jehovah in <span class='bible'>Joe 2:19<\/span>. The conditions described in <span class='bible'>Joe 1:10-12<\/span>, are to be reversed; corn, wine, and oil will be plentiful. <\/p>\n<p><strong> Floors <\/strong> Threshing floors, where corn is threshed out and heaped up (Thomson, 2:314-316). <\/p>\n<p><strong> Fats <\/strong> Modern form, <em> vats. <\/em> Not the wine presses, but the receptacles into which the wine flows from the presses, usually excavated in the natural rock (<span class='bible'>Isa 5:2<\/span>), a little lower than the presses (Van Lennep, 117ff.); applied here also to the receptacles for the oil. The vintage will be so plentiful that the vats will overflow (<span class='bible'>Pro 3:10<\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Joe 2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 24. <strong> And the floors shall be full of wheat<\/strong> ] Such fatness shall God&rsquo;s footsteps drop, that your houses shall be full of all &#8220;precious and pleasant riches,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Pro 24:4<\/span> ; so that you shall, as rich men love to do, <em> de pleno tollere acervo.<\/em> Only take heed you have not, as that rich fool, <em> animam triticeam,<\/em> a wheaten soul, that your abundance get not within you, T  , as the Pharisees&rsquo; did, <span class='bible'>Luk 11:41<\/span> (so that they did not more possess than were possessed of what they had), that ye set not your hearts upon your riches, <span class='bible'>Psa 62:11<\/span> . <\/p>\n<p> &#8211; &ldquo; <em> difficile est opibus non tradere mentem.<\/em> &rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> (Martial.)<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> And the fats shall overflow<\/strong> ] There shall be plenty of all things, as <span class='bible'>Pro 3:10<\/span> , the fruits and effect of that rain promised before. And doth not God daily turn water into wine, when of water falling upon the vine, and concocted by the heat of the sun, he produceth the grape, whence wine is pressed?<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>floors = threshing-floors. <\/p>\n<p>wheat = corn. <\/p>\n<p>fats = vats. Anglo-Saxon (northern) faet, (southern) vat= a vessel, or cask. Literally = that which contains. Hebrew yekeb the reservoir for receiving the wine; not gath, the press where the grapes are pressed. See note on Isa 5:2.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Joe 3:13, Joe 3:18, Lev 26:10, Pro 3:9, Pro 3:10, Amo 9:13, Mal 3:10 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Lev 25:19 &#8211; General Lev 26:4 &#8211; Then I Deu 28:12 &#8211; open Psa 81:16 &#8211; fed Hos 6:3 &#8211; as the rain Joe 2:19 &#8211; I will send Zec 10:1 &#8211; the time<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Joe 2:24. Floors refers to the places where the grain was beaten out of the husk and the chaff separated from the kernel by the wind. The fats means the vats or large tubB into which grapes were placed so that the juice could be pressed out.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. 24. The reversal of Joe 1:10-12. the floors ] i.e. the threshing-floors which, however, were not like our threshing-floors: see the description in the footnote on p. 227. fats ] i.e. (as we should say) vats, fat being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-joel-224\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joel 2:24&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}