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Daniel 7:21

The New Testament’s use of Daniel

4 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

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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.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Rev 11:7–10

The horn/beast 'made war with the saints and prevailed against them' — Rev's 'the beast... will make war with them, and overcome them' is a near-quotation, including the verb 'make war' and 'overcome/prevail.' Strong volume and recurrence (cf. Rev 13:7). LXX/Theodotion epoiei polemon... katischysen.

High confidence
Rev 13:5-10

'To make war with the saints, and to overcome them' is verbally close to Dan 7:21 'the horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them' (LXX epoiei polemon... katischysen). Strong verbal and thematic match.

High confidence

Echo2

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

Rev 17:12–14

The horn 'made war with the saints and prevailed' — the kings/beast who 'war against the Lamb' invert this; here the Lamb overcomes. Hays: thematic coherence, reversal of Daniel's beast-victory.

Medium confidence
Rev 17:1–6 ?

The horn 'made war with the saints and prevailed against them' colors 'the woman drunken with the blood of the saints' — Babylon/the beast slaughtering the holy ones. Faint here, fuller at Rev 13:7. Hays: thematic coherence.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Daniel 7
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