The king answered, I know of a certainty that you would gain time, because you see the thing is gone from me.
⛓ Read Daniel 2 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Making the best use of the time' (exagorazomenoi ton kairon, 'redeeming the time') resembles the idiom in Daniel 2:8 LXX, where the king says the magi are 'buying time' (kairon... exagorazete). The shared kairos-redemption phrasing toward 'those outside' suggests a possible verbal echo, though the sense differs and the link is contested.
Low confidence'You are trying to gain time' (kairon hymeis exagorazete) supplies the rare Septuagintal idiom behind 'redeeming the time' (ton kairon exagorazomenoi). Low volume but a genuine lexical parallel the prompt flags; contested because the sense is repurposed positively.
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