but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”
⛓ Read Judges 13 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.
Echo3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
That the child is 'filled with wisdom' and grows under God's grace faintly recalls the Nazirite child set apart to God from the womb in the Samson cycle; the link is the consecrated-child motif, supportive of the Samson allusion but not independently strong.
Low confidence'Holy one of God' may also echo the Nazirite consecration language ('a Nazirite/holy one of God', Judg 13:7 LXX), faintly punning on Jesus 'of Nazareth' in the demon's cry. Faint and contested but available in the LXX tradition.
Low confidenceSamson is to be 'a Nazirite/holy one of God from the womb' (Judges 13:7; 16:17 LXX 'hagios theou'), the closest verbal match to the demon's 'Holy One of God.' Volume on the exact phrase is real, but the Samson connection is thematically thin, so this is a contested lexical parallel for the title rather than a developed allusion.
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