“At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book. Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
⛓ Read Daniel 12 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The promise that at the end 'many who sleep in the dust shall awake' grounds Paul's hope for 'those who have fallen asleep' rising. The deliverance of God's people and the resurrection/awakening sequence is the clearest scriptural matrix for vv. 14-16.
High confidence'every one that shall be found written in the book' delivered, and the dead 'awake... some to everlasting life, and some to... everlasting contempt' — the book-enrollment determining destiny and the resurrection-to-judgment of all the dead. Source for the book of life deciding the lake of fire.
High confidence