the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.
We have here the first-fruits of the Spirit in the sermon which Peter preached immediately, directed, not to those of other nations in a strange language (we are not told what answer he gave to those that were amazed, and said, What meaneth this?) but to the Jews in the vulgar language, even to those that mocked; for he begins with the notice of that...
Commenting on Acts 2:14-36
The sun shall be turned into darkness,.... As at the death of Christ, by a total eclipse of it: and the moon into blood; as at the opening of the sixth seal, Rev 6:12. before that great and notable day of the Lord come; when he shall come in power and great glory, as he did in a few years after this, to take vengeance...
Verse 20. The sun shall be turned into darkness. . The same images used here with reference to the sun and moon, are used also there. They occur not unfrequently, . The shining of the sun is an emblem of prosperity; the withdrawing, or eclipse, or setting of the sun is an emblem of calamity, and is often thus used in the Scriptures, .