“I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
⛓ 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
15:19's geographic sweep ('from Jerusalem... as far as Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel') and the 'signs' motif echo Isaiah 66:19, where God sets a sign and sends survivors to far coastlands/nations that have not heard or seen his glory — a program Paul sees himself enacting. Reinforced by the Isaiah 52:15 citation two verses later.
Medium confidence'I will send survivors... to the nations... to the coastlands far away, who have not heard my fame' anchors the sending-to-distant-Gentiles motif of v21. Contested as direct echo versus shared Isaianic mission theme.
Low confidence