Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 33 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law?' (v.19) directly invokes the Mosaic Torah as a body, with the Pentateuch as availability. The argument turns on the law's own internal logic, and John names Moses three times in this unit. Quotation-strength reference to Torah as institution rather than a single verse.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers' rests on the Mosaic law as the ancestral inheritance of Israel; Deut 33:4 ('the law Moses commanded, the inheritance of the assembly of Jacob') supplies the conception. Background, contested.
Low confidenceThe notion of a 'faith once for all delivered to the saints' echoes the deuteronomic idea of a law/heritage handed down to the assembly of Jacob. Jude transposes the language of a delivered covenant deposit onto the apostolic faith.
Low confidence