I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
⛓ 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Blasphemous names' on the heads echoes the 'little horn' with 'a mouth speaking great things' (Dan 7:8); blasphemy-motif developed further in 13:5-6. Thematic recurrence strong.
High confidence'A mouth speaking great things' is a near-quotation of the little horn's 'a mouth speaking great things' (Dan 7:8, stoma laloun megala; cf. 7:20). Highest verbal volume in the pericope.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The little horn with 'a mouth speaking great things' (blasphemies, cf. 7:25) feeds the beast 'full of blasphemous names.' Hays: thematic coherence with Daniel's blaspheming horn.
Medium confidence