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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The opening self-description — "eyes like a flame of fire" and "feet like burnished brass" — is drawn from the angelophany of Dan 10:6 (eyes as flaming torches, arms and feet like burnished brass). High on volume; both distinctive images co-occur in source and target. The "burnished brass" (χαλκολιβάνῳ) wording is Revelation's coinage atop the LXX brass imagery.
High confidenceThe man clothed in linen: 'his eyes like flaming torches' (LXX hosei lampades pyros) - direct source of 'his eyes are a flame of fire' (Rev 19:12; cf. 1:14; 2:18). Verbal volume high.
High confidenceThe angel's appearance 'like lightning' and clothing 'white as snow' echoes Daniel's vision of the man clothed in linen whose 'face was like the appearance of lightning' and whose body shone. Matthew draws on the standard Danielic theophany-angelophany vocabulary to mark this messenger as a heavenly being.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The man clothed in linen has 'the sound of his words like the noise of a multitude' - contributes the multitude-voice element; chief donor in the rider pericope but resonant here.
Medium confidence