What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 20 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.
'Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit?' (v.7) draws on the Deuteronomic exemption, 'who has planted a vineyard and not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go home,' the principle that the laborer is entitled to the produce of his own work. Coherence is strong: Paul argues the worker rightly partakes of his labor's yield, and the vineyard image is the same. Medium volume by motif rather than wording.
Medium confidenceThe 'farmers who labor must be first to get a share of the crops' draws on the Torah principle that the one who plants the vineyard rightly enjoys its fruit. The labor-then-reward logic runs through the soldier/athlete/farmer triad.
Medium confidence