All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.
⛓ Read Isaiah 54 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.
'It is written in the prophets, They will all be taught by God' (v.45) formally cites Isaiah 54:13 ('all your children shall be taught by the LORD'). A second explicit citation in the chapter; high Volume.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'you yourselves are taught by God' (theodidaktoi) echoes the eschatological promise that 'all your children shall be taught by the LORD.' Paul claims this Isaianic restoration is realized among the Thessalonians, who need no human instruction in love.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"All your children shall be taught by the LORD" parallels the anointing that teaches the faithful so they need no human teacher. Direct divine instruction of God's children is the shared promise.
Medium confidence"All your children shall be taught by the LORD" undergirds 'one is your teacher' (v8); divine, not rabbinic, instruction is the eschatological norm.
Low confidence