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Isaiah 32:15

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

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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.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Gal 5:22-23 ?

The 'fruit of the Spirit' yielding peace and righteousness recalls Isaiah's vision of the Spirit poured from on high making the wilderness fruitful so that the effect of righteousness is peace. The agricultural Spirit-fruit-peace cluster coheres closely with Paul's metaphor.

Medium confidence
Luke 24:44-49

'Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high' supplies the very phrase 'power from on high' (ex hypsous) for the promised Spirit-endowment. Luke's 'clothed with power from on high' draws on this Isaianic image of the Spirit poured out to renew. Verbal contact ('from on high') gives medium-strong confidence.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Acts 10:44-48 ?

'Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high' contributes to the prophetic expectation of the Spirit's outpouring realized here on the Gentiles.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 32
Isaiah 32:17 4