For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
For the vision is yet for a time, and it shall shoot forth at the end, and not in vain: though he should tarry, wait for him; for he will surely come, and will not tarry.
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.
Habakkuk promises the vision awaits its appointed time, hastens to the end, will not lie, and 'though it delay, wait for it.' The parable's tension between God's apparent patience/delay and his coming swift vindication, capped by 'when the Son of Man comes,' resonates with this eschatological delay-yet-certain motif. Coherent with Luke's vindication eschatology.
Medium confidence'the vision... will not delay (lo yeacher)' / LXX 'it will not delay' underlies 'there will no longer be delay (chronos).' The LXX rendering with chronos/delay strengthens the verbal link; flagged LXX-vs-Hebrew (MT 'tarry', LXX delay) divergence.
Medium confidenceEcho5
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The Lord is not slow concerning his promise' answers the vision that 'awaits its appointed time… if it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come.'
Medium confidenceThe vision that 'awaits its appointed time' and will not delay may inform Paul's notion of the lawless one being revealed 'in his own season' and the present restraint. Conceptual parallel of an appointed eschatological moment.
Low confidence'Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay' frames the theme of the bridegroom's delay (v.5) and the call to keep ready through the apparent postponement of the appointed time.
Low confidence'The vision is yet for the appointed time... it will surely come, it will not delay' — supports 'the time is at hand' / 'I come quickly.' Faint, conceptual.
Low confidenceThe gospel 'promised before' (v.2) and the apostolic 'set apart' echo the prophetic-promise schema; faint thematic link to the awaited word that surely comes. Low volume, no verbal borrowing here, but coheres with the Hab 2:4 citation in 1:17.
Low confidence