But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.”
⛓ 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Hays: thematic + verbal coherence — the motif of a 'sealed book' (sphragizō / sealed) reserved 'to the time of the end' supplies the eschatological logic of Revelation 5: the sealed scroll contains the end-time decree that only the worthy one may unseal. Daniel 12 is the closest source for sealing a book until the appointed time; cf. also Daniel 8:26; 12:9. Septuagint/Theodotion both use sphragizō, matching Revelation's vocabulary.
High confidence'Seal up the words... shut up the book' directly underlies 'Seal up the things which the seven thunders said.' Inverts/echoes Daniel's sealing; Rev 22:10 later unseals. High thematic and verbal coherence.
High confidence'Shut up the words, and seal the book, until the time of the end' — pointedly REVERSED by 'Don't seal up the words... for the time is at hand.' Programmatic inversion (with Dan 12:9). Hays: recurrence + thematic coherence high.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The disciples' question about the sign of 'the end of the age' uses the apocalyptic 'time of the end' vocabulary that pervades Daniel 8-12, framing the whole discourse in Danielic eschatological terms.
Low confidenceThe instruction to commit the vision 'to a book' inverts Daniel's command to 'seal the book,' part of Revelation's deliberate contrast (the time being 'at hand,' 1:3, so the book is opened not sealed). Faint, structural echo only.
Low confidence