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Daniel 7:8

The New Testament’s use of Daniel

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

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.

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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 13:1-4

'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
Rev 13:5-10

'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 confidence

Echo1

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

Rev 17:1–6

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
Elsewhere in Daniel 7
Daniel 7:3 3Daniel 7:7 4Daniel 7:9-10 5Daniel 7:9 9Daniel 7:10 8Daniel 7:11 3Daniel 7:13-14 32Daniel 7:13 39Daniel 7:14 26Daniel 7:17 2Daniel 7:18 7Daniel 7:20 2Daniel 7:21 4Daniel 7:22 5Daniel 7:25 13Daniel 7:27 9