Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 2:16

16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel .

God does ordinarily, before that he sends his judgments, and does his strange work, endeavour to reclaim them by mercies: Not onely Ioel, but Isaiah, Ieremiah, and Ezekiel, and others Prophesied before the destruction of that people and Countrey, by Nebuchadnezzar; but now before the final and total ruine, God sent greater, and more than these, and endued them with a greater measure of the Spirit; clearer and fuller light to forewarn them of, and deliver them from wrath to come.