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Daniel 8:23

The New Testament’s use of Daniel

3 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

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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.

Echo3

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

1 Thess 2:13-16

'When the transgressors have reached their full measure (pleroumenon ton hamartion), a king... shall arise.' Daniel applies the filling-up-of-sins idea to an eschatological crisis preceding wrath, matching Paul's 'fill up their sins always... wrath has come.' Reinforces Genesis 15:16 within a second-temple judgment framework.

Medium confidence
2 Thess 2:3-4 ?

The rise of a bold king 'when transgressors have reached their full measure' may inform Paul's sequence of the rebellion/apostasy preceding the lawless one's revelation.

Low confidence
Matt 23:29-36 ?

"When the transgressors have reached their full measure" parallels the filling-up-of-iniquity idiom of v32.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Daniel 8
Daniel 8:13 3Daniel 8:16 2Daniel 8:17 2Daniel 8:23-25 2Daniel 8:25 3