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Job 38:17

The New Testament’s use of Job

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Matt 16:13-20

'The gates of Hades will not prevail' echoes 'Have the gates of death been revealed to you?' — the underworld as a fortified city whose gates symbolize the realm and power of death. Verbal touchpoint ('gates' of death/Hades).

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Rev 1:17–20 ?

The 'gates of death' over which only God has knowledge/authority faintly underlies Christ's possession of the 'keys of Death.' Image-level echo with no shared distinctive wording, so low and contested.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Job 38
Job 38:8-11 3Job 38:41 2