so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand.
⛓ Read Isaiah 52 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
15:21, formula-introduced ('as it is written'): 'They will see, to whom no news of him came; they who haven't heard will understand' = LXX Isaiah 52:15. Drawn from the fourth Servant Song; Paul grounds his pioneer policy (not building on another's foundation) in the Servant's mission to those never told. Verbatim LXX.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Servant before whom nations and kings are startled, who is 'proclaimed' where unheard, faintly underlies 'preached among the nations, believed on in the world.' A thin link to the Isaianic mission-to-the-nations motif.
Low confidence