You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 28 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The curse that one shall "grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness" supplies the image of being blinded so as not to find one's way. John applies this blinded groping to the one who hates his brother.
Medium confidence'You shall grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness' — covenant-curse noon-darkness imagery; faint.
Low confidence