You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat. The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. You shall put the mercy seat […]
⛓ Read Exodus 25 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.
‘Cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat’ (v. 5) is verbally dense with Exod 25:18–22 (‘cherubim… covering the mercy seat with their wings’). High volume on ‘cherubim’ + ‘mercy seat’; this is the closest-to-quotation of the inventory allusions.
High confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Mary sees 'two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain' — a striking image of the two cherubim of beaten gold facing each other over the mercy seat of the ark, between whom God's presence dwelt. The empty slab framed by two angels figures the tomb as the new holy of holies; high Coherence with Johannine temple typology.
High confidence