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Daniel 2:19

The New Testament’s use of Daniel

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Eph 3:1-6 ?

The specific moment that 'the mystery was made known to me by revelation' echoes Daniel 2:19, where 'the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a night vision.' The verbal coincidence of a mystery being revealed to a named recipient is strong, though it is part of the broader Daniel 2 matrix rather than a discrete second citation.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Acts 16:6-10 ?

Mystery 'revealed in a night vision' as the medium of divine disclosure; faint Septuagintal parallel for night-vision revelation that resolves a course of action.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Daniel 2
Daniel 2:8 2Daniel 2:20-23 2Daniel 2:21 7Daniel 2:21-23 2Daniel 2:22 6Daniel 2:28-29 7Daniel 2:28 9Daniel 2:34-35 4Daniel 2:44 12Daniel 2:47 6