If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks. Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your […]
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 15 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.
'They only asked us to remember the poor' draws on the Torah's central charge to open the hand to the poor brother and that 'the poor will never cease out of the land.' Volume and coherence are high: care for the poor is a covenant obligation Paul gladly affirms as binding on the Gentile mission.
High confidenceLazarus laid 'at the gate' desiring crumbs while the rich man feasts dramatizes the Deuteronomic command not to harden the heart against the poor brother at your gate, for the poor will never cease in the land. High coherence with the covenantal gate-and-poor topos.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul's appeal that the Macedonians gave generously out of deep poverty rests on the Deuteronomic open-hand command: do not harden your heart against the poor brother but give freely. The 'fellowship in service to the saints' (v.4) reflects the same covenantal obligation to relieve a needy member of God's people. Coherence with the whole collection theme is high, though the verbal link is thematic rather than lexical.
Medium confidenceThe command to lend generously to the poor 'and your heart shall not be grieved' grounds open-handed lending without expectation of return. Coherent with Luke's generosity ethic; moderate Availability.
Medium confidenceThe open-handed command to give freely to the poor brother and not harden the heart frames Israel's duty to the needy, which Jesus presses to its limit. The almsgiving ethic supplies background for 'give to the poor.' Contested; a broad covenantal commonplace.
Low confidence