Let his days be few. Let another take his office.
⛓ Read Psalm 109 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
The second member of Peter's catena: 'Let another take his office (ten episkopen autou laboi heteros),' verbatim from LXX Ps 108:8. Volume: very high, a direct formula-marked citation. Thematic coherence: decisive — it supplies the warrant for electing a replacement apostle in vv.21-26. Recurrence: Psalm 109 is an imprecatory psalm against a treacherous adversary, read figurally of Judas. Unambiguous quotation.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The son of destruction' whose loss fulfills Scripture (v12) is illumined by 'may his days be few; may another take his office,' the imprecation later applied to Judas in Acts. The betrayer-who-must-be-replaced motif coheres with the fulfillment claim; medium since John does not quote it here.
Medium confidence