Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?
⛓ Read Proverbs 30 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Who has ascended to heaven and come down? ... What is his name, and his son's name?' is strikingly answered by 3:13 ('No one has ascended... but he who descended, the Son of Man'). High volume of shared ascent/descent language plus the 'son' motif; a recognized wisdom backdrop.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'He who comes from above/from heaven is above all' recapitulates the ascent/descent and heavenly-origin question of Prov 30:4 already invoked at 3:13; recurrence within the chapter strengthens the link.
Medium confidence'What is his name, and what is his son's name?' faintly anticipates the exclusive Father-Son mutual knowing of v.27; contested.
Low confidence