My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, have I done no hurt.
⛓ 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Deliverance 'out of the mouth of the lion' evokes Daniel, whose God 'sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths' so the beasts did not hurt him. The archetype of the faithful servant rescued from the lions stands behind Paul's testimony of standing firm and being delivered.
High confidence‘Stopped the mouths of lions’ (v. 33) is a near-verbatim allusion to Dan 6:22, where the angel ‘shut the lions' mouths.’ High verbal volume on the distinctive image — among the clearest links in the unnamed list.
High confidence'My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths' parallels Peter's confession, 'the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me.' Both feature a righteous man condemned by a king, divinely rescued by an angel overnight, with near-identical 'God sent his angel' formula. Recurrence of the angelic-deliverance type is strong.
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