As a pleasant aroma will I accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 20 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.
'As a pleasing aroma I will accept you when I bring you out from the peoples' applies the sacrificial-fragrance formula to God's restored people gathered from the nations. Paul, spreading the aroma 'in every place' among saved and perishing, picks up this universalized, gathering sense of the pleasing odor. Medium.
Medium confidenceThe parallel 'I will receive you' in Ezek 20:41 ('I will accept you as a pleasing aroma when I bring you out') reinforces the source of Paul's reception-promise tied to separation from defilement. Coherence high with the holiness/return motif.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'As a pleasing aroma I will accept you' transfers the fragrant-offering language from animal sacrifice to God's acceptance of his people, a move parallel to Christ's self-gift accepted by God. Coherence is strong with Ephesians' ecclesial reading; medium confidence given multiple Levitical loci.
Medium confidence'As a pleasing aroma I will accept you' applies the sacrifice formula to persons God receives, paralleling Paul's transfer of cultic acceptability from animal offerings to the gift and givers. Coherence with the figural extension of sacrificial acceptance is strong; volume is moderate as one instance of the recurring aroma motif.
Medium confidence