These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth.
⛓ Read Daniel 7 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.
'These great beasts... are four kings that shall arise' grounds the interpretive equation 'the seven heads... are seven kings.' Hays: the Danielic beast-equals-kings hermeneutic is reused. Theodotion Dan 7:17.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Another beast coming up out of the earth' parallels Daniel's beasts which 'shall arise out of the earth' (Dan 7:17, anastesontai... apo tes ges) — note Daniel's interpretation says 'earth' though the vision says 'sea.' John may exploit this sea/earth doublet for his two beasts.
Medium confidence