You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
⛓ Read Exodus 29 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Christ's self-offering as 'a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance' directly takes up the cultic formula for the ram of ordination, 'a burnt offering... a pleasing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.' High volume (the technical sacrificial idiom osme euodias) and recurrence across the Pentateuch make this a clear cultic appropriation applied to Christ.
High confidencePaul calls the Philippians' gift 'a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God,' adopting the cultic formula 'a pleasing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD' from the sacrificial law. Volume is high on the pleasing-aroma + acceptable-sacrifice language, and coherence is strong as Paul recasts material aid as acceptable cultic offering.
High confidenceThe ordination ram offered as 'a pleasing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD' supplies priestly-consecration coloring to Paul's self-presentation as a fragrant offering in service of God. The ordination context coheres with Paul's apostolic vocation. Medium on shared formula.
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