The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for […]
⛓ Read Isaiah 11 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.
The peaceable, restored creation under the messianic shoot — wolf with lamb, no harm in all God's holy mountain — anticipates creation 'delivered from the bondage of decay,' the redeemed cosmos liberated alongside God's children (vv.19-21).
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'To sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth' may resonate with Isaiah's eschatological reconciliation of all creation under the Messianic shoot. Thematic coherence (cosmic harmony restored under the Anointed) is plausible but the volume is low; marked contested.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Jesus 'with the wild animals' may evoke the eschatological peace where beasts no longer harm, marking him as inaugurator of restored creation. Volume is purely thematic and the wild beasts in Mark could equally signal danger (cf. Ps 91), so the irenic-Eden reading is contested; included for the new-creation typology.
Low confidence