I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you. I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”
⛓ Read Genesis 17 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.
'Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I' appeals to the covenant promise of Abraham's 'seed,' the pedigree of God's elect people. The Abrahamic offspring formula is the foundation of the Hebrew/Israelite identity Paul claims. Volume rests on the loaded covenant term 'seed' rather than a quotation.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul's self-identification as 'a descendant of Abraham' (v.1) leans on the Abrahamic covenant promise to the seed; faint, but it grounds his claim that membership in the people persists by descent and election.
Low confidence