And when he was at the last gasp, he said, You, miscreant, do release us out of this present life, but the King of the world shall raise up us, who have died for his laws, to an eternal renewal of life.
⛓ Read 2 Maccabees 7 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
‘Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection’ (v. 35) draws on the Maccabean mother and seven sons (2 Macc 7), who refused release in hope of resurrection. The verbal link is ‘resurrection’/‘raise up… to renewal of life’ — a Second Temple, non-canonical witness read alongside Scripture.
Low confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The martyr's hope that 'the King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life' is a Second-Temple confession of God raising the dead amid suffering unto death, the same resurrection faith Paul invokes when under a death sentence. Availability is strong in the martyrological milieu; the contact is conceptual, not verbal.
Low confidenceThe martyr's hope: 'the King of the universe will raise us up.' Second Temple resurrection hope forms the conceptual horizon for the daughter's restoration being read as more than resuscitation; relevant but not a verbal borrowing.
Low confidenceThe martyred brothers' hope that 'the King of the world shall raise us up... unto everlasting life' — a Second Temple affirmation of bodily resurrection contested by the Sadducees here (22:23-32).
Low confidenceThe martyrs' confidence that 'the King of the world will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life' is the Second-Temple development of resurrection hope Paul shares. Faint and supplementary to Daniel, so contested.
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