At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
⛓ Read Daniel 4 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
“Him who lives forever and ever” (to zonti eis tous aionas ton aionon) is the Danielic divine title for the eternally-living God whom even Nebuchadnezzar blesses (Dan 4:34; cf. Dan 6:26; 12:7). Distinctiveness: this 'the one who lives forever' formula is a hallmark of Daniel and the Second-Temple liturgical vocabulary Revelation inherits. Theodotion Dan 4:34 has zonti eis ton aiona; Rev expands to the plural-of-eternity. Coherent with Revelation's repeated use of the title (1:18; 10:6; 15:7).
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'I blessed... him who lives forever' (Nebuchadnezzar's doxology) is a further attestation of the 'living forever' divine epithet sworn by here; faint, reinforces Dan 12:7 and Deut 32:40.
Low confidence