to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 30 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Cleaving to the LORD as the source of life (LXX kollasthai) recurs here, reinforcing the covenantal 'joined to the Lord' motif of v.17. A faint recurrence within the Deuteronomic cleaving stream rather than a discrete source.
Low confidenceThe LORD as 'your life and the length of your days' undergirds the Johannine equation of God/Word with life itself. The eternal life that was with the Father echoes the covenantal life found in God.
Low confidencePaul styles his apostleship as serving 'the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus.' The Deuteronomic covenant blessing frames clinging to the LORD as the source of 'life and length of days,' an OT matrix for the promise-of-life language Paul Christologizes here.
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