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Isaiah 6:1

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

John 12:37-43

'Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him' alludes to the throne-vision of Isa 6:1, 'I saw the Lord... high and lifted up,' identifying the glory Isaiah beheld with Christ's. Strong Coherence: John binds the 'lifted up' (hypsoo) Servant to the 'high and lifted up' enthroned Lord of the call narrative.

High confidence

Echo1

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

Rev 15:5-8

'I saw the Lord... high and lifted up, and the train of his robe filled the temple (naos)' - the temple-filling theophany frames v.8 alongside the smoke of Isa 6:4. Same vision unit.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 6
Isaiah 6:1-8 2Isaiah 6:1-3 4Isaiah 6:4 2Isaiah 6:9-10 12Isaiah 6:10 4