For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 7 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.
God 'chose you' not for your numbers but in love is the election language behind 'God chose you from the beginning for salvation.' Paul transposes Israel's election to the believing community.
High confidence"As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved" transfers to the church Israel's defining triad: chosen, a holy people, beloved by the LORD's set love. High coherence and recurrence; the election language (eklektoi, hagioi, egapemenoi) maps directly onto Deuteronomy's covenant self-description of Israel.
High confidence