He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
⛓ Read Proverbs 22 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.
Echo5
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'He who has a generous eye (bountiful eye) will be blessed' — the Hebrew idiom of the 'good/generous eye' versus the stingy eye underlies the 'sound' (single) eye and the 'evil eye,' linking the lamp saying to generosity (cf. surrounding treasure/mammon).
Medium confidenceThe wisdom theme that the diligent worker rightly looks for his portion offers a faint backdrop to 'the thresher threshes in hope of partaking of the crop' (v.10). Low volume and no verbal contact; included as a coherent wisdom echo of the laborer's just expectation.
Low confidence'Dole out all my goods to feed the poor' resonates with the OT praise of the one who shares bread with the poor and is blessed. Paul concedes the highest almsgiving, yet subordinates it to love; the link to the wisdom ideal of generosity to the poor is thematic and faint.
Low confidenceThe summons to a willing readiness in giving 'according to what you have' (vv.11-12) resonates with the blessing on the bountiful eye that gives bread to the poor. The wisdom tradition that values the disposition of the giver over the amount stands behind Paul's stress on willingness; the link is thematic and faint.
Low confidence"He who has a generous (good) eye will be blessed" lies behind the idiom of the "good eye" (single/generous) vs. the evil eye (stingy). A Semitic idiom backdrop to 11:34; low but coherent.
Low confidence