Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people”; neither let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” For thus says Yahweh, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: to them I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, […]
⛓ Read Isaiah 56 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake' inverts and fulfills Isaiah's promise that faithful eunuchs receive 'a name better than of sons and daughters' within God's house; the strongest scriptural ground for valuing the eunuch in the kingdom.
Medium confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
The Ethiopian 'eunuch' brought into the people of God figurally fulfills Isaiah's promise that the eunuch who keeps covenant will be given 'a name better than of sons and of daughters' within God's house. The correspondence is typological with strong thematic coherence (an excluded class welcomed); fittingly, the eunuch is reading the very scroll of Isaiah. Verbal volume is low, but the structural irony is pointed and the placement makes the allusion deliberate.
High confidence