As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
⛓ Read Isaiah 66 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.
'As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem' supplies the maternal-divine consolation image that Paul universalizes as the 'God of all comfort.' The promise that the comforted will themselves be settled and consoled coheres with Paul's chain of comfort flowing through sufferers to others. High volume of the comfort motif.
High confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you.' The motherly consolation that God promises Zion may color Paul's affectionate maternal self-portrait (vv. 7-8); the same passage stands near 66:14 imagery he uses elsewhere. Contested and faint.
Low confidence'As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you' is part of the same Isaian comfort cluster as 49:13 and may stand behind Paul's God-who-comforts language. Volume is faint and it overlaps heavily with the stronger 49:13 link, so it is marked low and contested. Listed for completeness of the Isaian consolation field.
Low confidence'As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you' parallels the divine comfort Paul invokes; faint.
Low confidence