When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
⛓ Read Exodus 34 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.
'Beholding/seeing the glory of the Lord... transformed into the same image from glory to glory' figurally generalizes Moses' transformation in Exodus 34:29, where his face shone from speaking with the LORD. Paul makes the Sinai theophany the pattern of Christian transfiguration; strong coherence with the chapter.
High confidenceWhen Moses came down from Sinai the skin of his face shone because he had talked with God, so that the people were afraid. Jesus' garments becoming dazzling white and the disciples' fear echo the transfigured radiance of Moses, while transposing the glory from reflected to inherent. The Moses-glory pattern is reinforced by Moses' actual presence on the mountain.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ' continues ch. 3's contrast with the glory on Moses' face, transferring the shining-face motif to Christ. Recurrence from the immediately prior argument makes the Exodus glory narrative the controlling subtext.
Medium confidence