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Psalm 104:2

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

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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 6:13-16

God is 'covered with light as with a garment.' 'Dwelling in unapproachable light' (v.16) draws on this hymnic image of God clothed in light. The closest scriptural antecedent for the light-dwelling description.

High confidence

Echo1

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

1 John 1:5

God 'covers himself with light as with a garment' presents the deity clothed in light. This supports the predication 'God is light' as native to Israel's praise of the Creator.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 104
Psalm 104:6-9 2Psalm 104:12 3Psalm 104:14-15 4