Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go out, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
⛓ Read Isaiah 2 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.
'Beginning at Jerusalem' enacts the eschatological pattern whereby 'out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem,' the nations streaming to and the word streaming from Zion. Luke reverses the centripetal pilgrimage into a centrifugal mission from Jerusalem. Coherence is strong.
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'From you the word of the Lord has been declared... in every place' echoes the Zion oracle in which the word of YHWH goes forth from Jerusalem to the nations. Paul recasts the believing community as a new radiating center for the logos kyriou; Coherence with the mission-of-the-word theme is strong though the geography is reapplied.
Medium confidencePaul's rebuke, 'Was it from you that the word of God went out?' (14:36) faintly plays on the prophetic conviction that 'out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem'—the word originates from God's chosen center, not from the Corinthians. The link is allusive and contested, but it underlies Paul's claim that the divine word is not theirs to originate.
Low confidence'The Jerusalem that is above is free, the mother of us all' (v.26) draws on the prophetic exaltation of Zion as the mother-city to which nations stream. Conceptual availability is strong (heavenly/eschatological Zion) but Galatians supplies no shared wording, so low/contested.
Low confidence'Out of Zion' as the source of deliverance (v.26) resonates with Zion-centered eschatology ('out of Zion shall go forth the law'). Faint thematic backdrop to the quoted Isa 59:20.
Low confidence