Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 44 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart or flesh, shall enter my sanctuary' — purity-exclusion source for v.27; pairs with Isa 52:1.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Ezekiel bars the 'uncircumcised in heart and flesh' from the sanctuary; Paul reworks the temple-purity logic so that true 'worship' belongs to those circumcised in spirit. Fainter and one of a cluster, so marked contested.
Low confidence