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Isaiah 6:4

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

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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.

Rev 15:5-8

'the house was filled with smoke' (kapnos) at Isaiah's throne-vision is the closest verbal match for 'filled with smoke,' linking theophany-judgment to temple glory. The word 'smoke' (not 'cloud') tilts Rev toward Isaiah 6 over Exod 40.

High confidence

Echo1

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

Acts 4:23-31 ?

The shaking of 'the place' (the praying assembly) after the prayer also recalls Isa 6:4, where the thresholds/foundations of the temple shook at the divine voice amid the seraphic praise. A theophanic shaking echo; low and contested.

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