When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone out of his land. But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went. Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where […]
⛓ Read Ezekiel 36 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.
Ezekiel develops the same theme that Israel 'profaned my holy name among the nations' so that God acts to vindicate it. The Pastoral concern that believing slaves not cause God's name to be blasphemed by outsiders draws on this prophetic logic of the name's holiness being bound to the people's behavior. Closely paired with Isaiah 52:5 as the wellspring of the 'name blasphemed' tradition.
High confidence2:24 the profaning of God's name among the nations is reinforced by Ezek 36:20-23, 'they profaned my holy name... wherever they came among the nations' — the same prophetic logic (Israel's conduct dishonoring God before the Gentiles), and Ezek 36's heart/spirit renewal also feeds 2:29.
High confidenceThe motif that God's people may cause his name to be profaned/blasphemed among the nations underlies v.5 and v.10 ('that they may adorn the doctrine of God'). Ezekiel pairs the profaning of the name with God's resolve to vindicate his holy name, the same logic of witness Paul applies.
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