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Daniel 6:17

The New Testament’s use of Daniel

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

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.

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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.

Matt 27:62-66

A stone laid over the lions' den and 'sealed' with the king's signet so that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel — closely parallels the rolling and 'sealing' of the stone to secure Jesus' tomb (the righteous one shut in by a sealed stone, then divinely vindicated).

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Rev 20:1–3 ?

The stone laid on the lions' den 'sealed (LXX esphragisato) with the king's own signet... that the purpose might not be changed' — verbal/conceptual parallel to shutting and sealing over the abyss so the dragon cannot escape. Faint, contested.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Daniel 6
Daniel 6:10 3Daniel 6:16-24 2Daniel 6:22 3Daniel 6:26 3