Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.
⛓ Read Leviticus 11 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
John's diet of locusts reflects the one insect category Leviticus 11:22 permits as clean food, anchoring his wilderness asceticism in Torah dietary law. The contact is a single permitted-food detail with no verbal borrowing, so the echo is faint and contested; it functions mainly to authenticate his wilderness piety.
Low confidenceLocusts are named among the few clean, edible insects in the dietary code; John's diet of 'locusts and wild honey' marks him as eating only what is ritually permitted in the wilderness. Faint, thematic — establishes John's ascetic/pure wilderness life rather than a verbal quotation.
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