John Trapp on Joel 3:18

Verſe 18. The mountains ſhall drop down new wine] By theſe hyperbolicall expreſſions is promiſed plenty of all things pertayning to life and godlineſſe; ſuch a golden age, as the Poet deſcribeth. Flumina jam lactis, jam flumina nectaris ibant, Flavaque de viridi ſtillabant ilice mella.Ou Metam. Where it muſt be obſerved, that ſpirituall good things are promiſed under the notion of temporall, as of Muſt, Milk, &c. Ob populi infantiam, by reaſon of the infancy of that people of that time. The mountaines, i. e. the moſt barren places: ſhall drop down [non-Latin text not transcribed], without our labour, ſhall yeild plentifully, New wine ſtrong conſolations and Scripture-comforts for ſtrong Chriſtians. And the hills ſhall flow with milk, that unadulterated ſincere milk of Gods word for his babes 1 Cor. 2.2. 1 Pet. 2.2.

And all the rivers of Judah ſhall flow with waters,] Sanctuary-waters, wholeſome doctrines, ſuch as have a healing, cooling, quenching, quickning property in them, Eſay 44, 3. and a fountain ſhall come forth,] viz. Baptiſme, that laver of regeneration, Tit. 3.5. that fountain opened, Zach. 13.1. that pure river of water of life, clear as chryſtal, that waſheth away ſin, Rev. 22.1. Acts 22.16.

and ſhall water the the valley of Shittim.] That dry valley in the borders of Moab, neer to Jordan,Num. 25. Joſh. 2. and not far from the dead Sea. Here it was that the Iſraelites defiled themſelves with the daughters of Moab (as Jarchi noteth) but ſhall bee purified and ſanctified with the waſhing of water, by the word, Epheſ. 5.26. Tarnovius renders the Text, Qui irrigabit vallem cedrorum, which ſhall water the valley of cedars, thoſe choiſeſt trees planted in the paradiſe of God, Pſal. 92.13. For (ſaith He) as the Tabernacle was built and garniſhed of old with Shittim-wood, for the moſt part, Exod. 25.5. & 26.15. & 27.1. & 30.1. ſo is the ſpirituall temple, with theſe ſpirituall cedars.