“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
⛓ Read Isaiah 43 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.
'Do not remember the former things... behold, I am doing a new thing' stands directly behind 'the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.' The pairing of forgotten old / heralded new with the demonstrative 'behold' gives high verbal volume and coherence; the new-creation announcement is unmistakably Isaianic second-exodus language.
High confidence"Do not remember the former things... I am doing a new thing" frames the new creation as the displacement of what is old, paralleling Paul's relegation of circumcision/uncircumcision to nothing (v.15). Volume is moderate and the theme is part of Isaiah's new-exodus cluster.
Medium confidence