Because he was ignorant of him that moulded him, And of him that inspired into him an active soul, And breathed into him a vital spirit.
⛓ Read Wisdom of Solomon 15 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 reference to the God who 'inspired him with an active soul and breathed into him a living spirit' connects the breath of God with life and knowledge, a deuterocanonical background for the God-breathed (theopneustos) word. The divine inbreathing motif resonates faintly.
Low confidence'He failed to know the one who formed him and inspired him with an active soul and breathed into him a living spirit' restates Gen 2:7 in Second-Temple idiom, evidencing the availability of the breath-of-life motif John reworks. Deuterocanonical witness rather than a direct source.
Low confidence