He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 8 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul's repeated uncertainty 'whether in the body or out of the body' and the verb 'caught up' recall prophetic rapture, as when the spirit 'lifted me up between earth and heaven' and brought Ezekiel in visions to Jerusalem. Faint but coherent: the motif of bodily-or-spiritual transport in vision is a prophetic precedent Paul reflexively invokes.
Low confidenceThe 'image' provoking idolatrous worship may glance at Ezekiel's 'image of jealousy' in the temple (Ezek 8:3-5, eikon tou zelous). Faint; supports the image-of-the-beast as cultic abomination.
Low confidence