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Isaiah 58:8

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Then your light shall break out as the morning, and your healing shall spring out speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; Yahweh’s glory shall be your rear guard.

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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.

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Luke 1:76-80

'The dawn from on high will visit us, to shine' echoes Isaiah 58:8, 'then shall your light break forth like the dawn.' The light-breaks-forth-like-dawn imagery contributes to the anatole metaphor; a coherent supporting echo.

Medium confidence
Matt 5:13-16 ?

When justice is done, 'your light shall break forth like the dawn'; light as visible righteous deeds (cf. 'see your good works').

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 58
Isaiah 58:3-7 2Isaiah 58:6-7 2Isaiah 58:6 2Isaiah 58:7 5Isaiah 58:10 2Isaiah 58:11 2