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Jeremiah 51:6

The New Testament’s use of Jeremiah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don’t be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.

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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.

Quotation1

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

Rev 18:4-8

'Flee out of the midst of Babylon... be not cut off in her iniquity' (LXX Jer 28:6) — parallel exodus-from-Babylon command tied to not sharing her punishment; reinforces v.4's 'that you don't receive of her plagues.' Doublet of 51:45.

High confidence

Echo1

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

Rev 17:1–6

'Flee out of the midst of Babylon... be not cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance' frames the judgment-of-Babylon oracle the angel announces ('the judgment of the great prostitute'). Hays: recurrence within the same Jeremianic source-block. LXX Jer 28:6.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Jeremiah 51
Jeremiah 51:7 2Jeremiah 51:13 2Jeremiah 51:63-64 2