I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn’t return from their ways.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 15 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
"I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land" (Jeremiah 15:7) supplies the divine-winnowing image of separating people for judgment that underlies John's fan and threshing floor. The agricultural-judgment metaphor (winnow/scatter the unfaithful) gives solid Coherence.
Medium confidence'I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land' supplies the winnowing-as-judgment image directly behind 'his winnowing fork is in his hand.' Distinctive shared instrument and judgment sense; good Volume on the winnowing metaphor.
Medium confidence