Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
⛓ Read Isaiah 40 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Simeon's 'my eyes have seen your salvation... before the face of all peoples' echoes 'the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.' The universal-seeing-of-revealed-glory theme reinforces the broader Isaiah 40-55 matrix of the Nunc Dimittis.
Medium confidence'The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men' (v.11) and the 'appearing of the glory' (v.13) draw on the revelation of the LORD's glory which 'all flesh shall see together.' The universal scope of salvation/glory revealed is Isaianic.
Medium confidence