Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
⛓ 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.
'Many shall purify themselves... but the wicked shall act wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.' Direct source for the let-the-unjust-remain-unjust / let-the-righteous-remain-righteous antithesis. Strong volume and verbal echo (esp. OG/Theodotion).
High confidence"Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white (LXX leukanthosin) and be refined" through the time of trouble — the closest source for the eschatological making-white of the faithful precisely amid tribulation, matching "made them white" of those who "came out of the great tribulation." Daniel's end-time-refining-whitening is thematically and verbally apt (leukaino).
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The wicked shall not understand, but the wise shall understand' — an eschatological have/have-not of understanding paralleling v.11-12.
Low confidence'many will be purified... but the wicked shall act wickedly' (Dan 12:10) parallels the sifting in which many stumble and love grows cold while some endure to be saved.
Low confidence