Matthew Poole and continuators on Joel 3:10

10 Beat your plow-shares into swords , and your pruning-hooks into spears , let the weak say I am strong .

Here is a prediction of War, and, such as should continue, with some intermissions, through many years, as on the contrary when swords are to be beaten into plow-shares, and spears into pruning-hooks; it was a prediction of peace, Is[illegible: 1 letter]. 2.4. lay aside your Husbandry in ploughing and sowing,

and let Gardiners, Vine-dressers, and Planters think of getting spears instead of pruning-hooks.

Either of Body through sickness or natural weakness, or else weak of mind, fearful, and cowardly

Put on strength and valour greater than he hath, let none be absent from this War.

Marginal references: Mic[illegible: 1 letter] [illegible: 1 span]; Or, [illegible: 1 word]; Zec[illegible: 1 letter]. [illegible: 1 span]