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. Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!” The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was […]
⛓ Read Isaiah 6 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.
Paul's temple vision in a trance, seeing the Lord and being sent (v17-21), maps onto Isaiah's temple theophany and commission ('I saw the Lord... Whom shall I send?... Go'). Setting (temple), visionary mode, sending command, and a hardened audience that 'will not receive' all converge — a deliberate prophetic-call form.
High confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
The throne-vision call of Isaiah — overwhelmed prophet confronted by divine glory, then sent — is the archetype Luke draws Saul's commissioning into. Little verbal overlap, but the type-scene logic (theophany → unworthiness → sending) is the figural frame; coherence high, volume low.
Medium confidence