The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
Ver. 15. The sun and the moon shall be darkened] he sets this note, "Signs which shall go before the last judgment," Mat 24:29 Luke 21:25. See Trapp on " Joe 2:13 " The prophets, by such forms of speech, use to decipher greatest calamities when all things look dark; as it fareth also with them that are under spiritual desertion, Isaiah 50:10, who yet are exhorted there to "trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon their God"; to cast the anchor of hope, as Paul and his company did in the shipwreck, Acts 27:20, when they saw neither sun nor moon for many days together, and no small tempest lay upon them; all hope that they should be saved being taken away.