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Daniel 8:25

The New Testament’s use of Daniel

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and he shall destroy many in their security. He shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

2 Thess 2:3-4

The horn that magnifies himself and 'rises up against the Prince of princes' contributes to the self-exalting opposition to God that defines the man of lawlessness.

Medium confidence

Echo2

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

Rev 13:16-18 ?

'Let him calculate the number of the beast... the number of a man' — the wisdom-to-discern motif ('Here is wisdom... understanding') resonates with Daniel's apocalyptic call for the wise (maskilim) to understand (Dan 12:10; 'understanding in all visions' Dan 1:17; 8:23-25). Gematria itself is extra-biblical technique.

Low confidence
Rev 17:12–14 ?

The king who 'stands up against the Prince of princes' but is 'broken without hand' parallels the kings warring on the Lamb and being overcome. Faint, structural. Hays: low.

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