And he was zealous for the law, even as Phinehas did to Zimri the son of Salu.
⛓ Read 1 Maccabees 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Mattathias 'acted zealously for the law, as Phinehas did' supplies the deuterocanonical bridge for the zeal-by-violence ideal Paul once held in 'the Jews' religion' (Ioudaismos, a term coined in 2 Macc). Marks availability of the militant-zeal tradition; low as a background, not a quotation.
Low confidenceMattathias acts 'as Phinehas did,' showing 'zeal for the law' expressed in killing apostates — precisely the persecuting zeal Paul claims and renounces. Faint, supplementary to 1 Macc 2:54.
Low confidence