For verily all men by nature were but vain who had no perception of God, And from the good things that are seen they gained not power to know him that is, Neither by giving heed to the works did they recognize the architect;
⛓ Read Wisdom of Solomon 13 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.
'all men... were ignorant of God' is the premise that Gentiles fail to know God from creation; a faint deuterocanonical parallel to 'who don't know God.' Contested as direct dependence versus shared topos.
Low confidence'All men who were ignorant of God' parallels the Gentiles 'alienated from the life of God because of ignorance.' Volume is lower than 14:22-27 but reinforces the same Second-Temple ignorance-of-God topos; counted separately for recurrence.
Low confidence