For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
⛓ Read Malachi 1 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.
'In every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations.' Paul's aroma of the knowledge of God spread 'in every place' strikingly combines fragrant offering + worldwide diffusion among the nations, matching Malachi's vision. Coherence with Paul's Gentile mission is high; medium for the inexact wording.
Medium confidence'From the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations' anticipates worship gathered from all peoples east to west, coherent with outsiders streaming into the kingdom. Medium Volume; reinforces the Gentile-inclusion theme.
Medium confidenceEcho6
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'From the rising of the sun even to its going down my name is great among the nations' undergirds the Gentile-from-east-and-west theme; recurrence of the universal-worship motif strengthens the echo.
Medium confidenceThe 'acceptable offering' of/among the Gentiles (15:16) resonates with Malachi 1:11, where a pure offering is made to God's name 'among the nations.' Cultic-offering-among-Gentiles imagery; thematic with some lexical overlap (offering, acceptable, nations).
Medium confidence'In every place' offerings are made to YHWH's name 'from the rising of the sun to its setting' supplies the universalizing 'in every place' formula Paul uses for the spread of faith toward God. The phrase is a Septuagintal marker of the name's worldwide honor; contested given its commonness.
Low confidence'That the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified' resonates with Malachi's oracle that God's name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Paul transfers the magnification of the divine name to the name of the Lord Jesus. Thematic and contested as a deliberate source.
Low confidenceFear falls and the name of the Lord is magnified among Jews and Greeks alike; Malachi's vision of the Lord's name being great among the nations resonates with the name being exalted across ethnic lines at Ephesus. Faint, contested.
Low confidence'My name will be great among the nations... in every place incense is offered to my name' - universal honoring of God's name by the nations; reinforces 'all the nations will come and worship.' Faint, thematic.
Low confidence