“I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;
⛓ Read Isaiah 51 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.
'I, even I, am he who comforts you' identifies God himself as the comforter of the afflicted and fearful, which is exactly Paul's confession that we 'are comforted by God.' The emphatic self-identification of God as comforter undergirds the title 'God of all comfort.' Strong thematic coherence and verbal overlap.
High confidence'I, I am he who comforts you' lies behind 'God our Father... who gave us eternal comfort.' The divine self-designation as the comforter of his people resonates with Paul's benediction.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Why are you afraid of mortal man... who fades like grass?' is a nearby Isaian grass-frailty saying within the same comfort-of-Zion section, supporting the Isaiah 40 recurrence. Low distinctiveness on its own.
Low confidence