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Deuteronomy 32:47

The New Testament’s use of Deuteronomy

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

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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.

Echo2

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

Acts 7:35-43 ?

'Living oracles' (logia zonta) echoes Moses' claim that the law 'is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life' — the Torah as the word of life.

Medium confidence
John 6:60-71 ?

'You have the words of eternal life' (v.68) faintly recalls Moses' 'it is no empty word for you, but your very life.' The word-as-life motif suits John's Mosaic typology; diffuse and contested.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Deuteronomy 32
Deuteronomy 32:4 8Deuteronomy 32:5 10Deuteronomy 32:8 2Deuteronomy 32:11 3Deuteronomy 32:15 3Deuteronomy 32:17 3Deuteronomy 32:18 2Deuteronomy 32:20 6Deuteronomy 32:21 8Deuteronomy 32:35 5Deuteronomy 32:39 9Deuteronomy 32:40 2Deuteronomy 32:42 2Deuteronomy 32:43 6