Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you. A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel. Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music […]
⛓ Read Daniel 6 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.
Echo1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Daniel's faithful endurance in the lions' den, delivered by God, is a possible typological resonance for steadfastly withstanding the roaring lion amid suffering.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
'I fought with beasts at Ephesus' (v.32) may be read figurally against Daniel cast among the lions and delivered, the paradigm of the righteous sufferer rescued from beasts. Volume is low and Paul's phrase is likely metaphorical for human adversaries, so this is a faint figural echo of the deliverance-from-beasts tradition.
Low confidence