Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.
⛓ 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.
Isaiah 66:5 speaks of brethren who hate and cast out the faithful 'for my name's sake,' claiming it is God who is glorified — strikingly close to expulsion from the synagogue done as service to God. Volume and coherence are strong; the verb of casting out the faithful from the cultic community matches John's aposynagogos.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Isaiah 66:5's promise that the LORD will appear to the joy of the persecuted faithful while their mockers are put to shame matches 1:10's vindicating appearance 'glorified in his saints.' The same oracle's reversal — glory for the oppressed, judgment for oppressors — pervades 2 Thessalonians 1. Consistent with the chapter's Isaiah 66 frame.
Medium confidenceThe prayer 'that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him' continues the Isaiah 66 motif of the LORD being glorified before and within his vindicated people. The mutual glorification reflects the oracle's promise that God will show his glory to the faithful. Faint within the chapter's broader Isaianic frame.
Low confidence'Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake' anticipates being persecuted 'for my name's sake' (15:21). The phrase about suffering on account of God's name gives coherence to the disciples' share in the world's hatred.
Low confidence