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Hosea 2:15

The New Testament’s use of Hosea

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

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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.

1 Cor 16:5-9 ?

Paul's 'a great and effective door has opened to me' may draw on the prophetic 'door of hope' that the LORD opens for renewed mission. The metaphor of a divinely-opened door for fruitful action has OT antecedents, but the contact is conceptual not verbal and the open-door image is broadly diffuse, so it is contested.

Low confidence
2 Cor 2:12-13 ?

'A door was opened to me in the Lord' may resonate with Hosea's 'door of hope' (petach tiqvah) opened in the wilderness as a gateway to renewed mission. The image of a divinely opened door of opportunity is faint and contested, as the Roman idiom of an 'open door' for preaching may be independent. Marked low.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Hosea 2
Hosea 2:2-13 2Hosea 2:19-20 8Hosea 2:23 4