I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, whose thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz: his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
⛓ Read Daniel 10 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.
Allusion5
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The 'two men in dazzling clothing' at the tomb echo Daniel's angelic figure clothed in linen with a face/body 'like lightning' and 'like the gleam of beryl.' Luke's verb 'astraptousē' (flashing/dazzling) matches the Danielic theophanic vocabulary for angelic interpreters who appear at moments of eschatological revelation. Volume and coherence are strong; Daniel is Luke's apocalyptic template.
High confidenceThe whole figure — robe, golden belt, eyes like fire, feet like burnished brass, resounding voice — is built on Daniel's glorious man. Very high verbal volume across multiple clustered details; this is the dominant template for the inaugural christophany.
High confidenceThe radiant heavenly figure with face like lightning/sun, legs/feet like burnished bronze or fire, and a great voice. Verbal volume is high (face, feet/legs of fire, loud voice cluster together), strongly shaping the angel's theophanic description.
High confidenceCornelius recounts that during his fast at the ninth hour 'a man stood before me in bright clothing' — the angelophany described as a man in dazzling/bright garments matches Daniel's vision of a man clothed in shining apparel appearing during a period of fasting and prayer. Coherent verbal and situational overlap.
Medium confidenceThe dazzling angelic figures 'in white' draw on the Danielic vision of the man clothed in linen with a face like lightning. Volume is modest since John specifies only white garments, but the radiant-angel topos is widely available in apocalyptic.
Low confidence