Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 4 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.
Peter's 'Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean' verbally mirrors Ezekiel's protest 'I have never defiled myself... neither has anything abominable/unclean come into my mouth.' Distinctive shared form (prophet's emphatic refusal of unclean food to a divine command). High volume.
High confidencePeter's protest, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth,' closely echoes Ezekiel's own protest at the command to eat defiling food: 'I have not eaten of that which dies of itself... neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.' The verbal and situational parallel (prophet objecting to a divine eating-command on grounds of lifelong purity) is striking; this is a strong allusion, perhaps the model for Peter's words.
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