Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
⛓ Read Proverbs 9 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.
The saying 'to him who has, more will be given' (4:25) parallels Proverbs' wisdom-multiplication theme ('Give to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser'). The principle that receptivity yields increase is thematically coherent with the surrounding hearing-discourse, though faint.
Low confidence'Give to a wise man and he will be wiser still' — the principle of v.12, 'to him who has, more will be given,' resembles wisdom's accumulative reward.
Low confidence