“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
⛓ Read Isaiah 49 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Can a woman forget her nursing child... ?' supplies the tender maternal-nursing imagery that informs Paul's self-comparison to a trophos cherishing her own children. Faint verbal contact but coherent with the nurturing-mother topos drawn from Israel's prophets.
Low confidenceA mother cannot forget her nursing child — the a fortiori of parental compassion ('how much more your Father') has prophetic precedent.
Low confidence