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Isaiah 2:5

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

4 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

1 John 1:6-7

'Come, let us walk in the light of the LORD' supplies the ethical idiom of walking in light that 1 John opposes to walking in darkness. The summons to conduct oneself in God's light is directly echoed.

Medium confidence

Echo3

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

John 12:34-36 ?

'Walk while you have the light... that you may become children of light' draws on the prophetic 'walk in the light of the Lord' and the wider light/darkness covenant motif. Coherence with Isaiah's light-walking and John's pervasive light theme gives medium weight; an idiom rather than a citation.

Medium confidence
1 Thess 5:1-11 ?

Isaiah's call to 'walk in the light of the LORD' offers a faint background for Paul's 'children of light... children of the day' (5:5) language of belonging to the light rather than darkness. Contested and one of several light/darkness texts.

Low confidence
Rev 22:14–17 ?

'Come, let us walk in the light of the LORD' — invitation-to-come framing; faint background to the threefold 'Come!' Generic invitation idiom.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 2
Isaiah 2:2-3 5Isaiah 2:3 5Isaiah 2:10 2Isaiah 2:11-17 2Isaiah 2:19 3