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Proverbs 28:22

The New Testament’s use of Proverbs

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

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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.

1 Tim 6:9-10

'A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.' The proverb that the avaricious rush toward wealth only to meet ruin parallels the trajectory of those who 'fall into... ruin and destruction.' Supporting wisdom source.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Matt 6:22-23

'A man with an evil eye hastens after riches' — the 'evil eye' as greed/stinginess, the very vice contrasted with the sound eye between the treasure and mammon sayings.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Proverbs 28
Proverbs 28:13 2Proverbs 28:19 2