But let us lie in wait for the righteous man, Because he is of disservice to us, And is contrary to our works, And upbraids us with sins against the law, And lays to our charge sins against our discipline. He professes to have knowledge of God, And names himself servant of the Lord. He became to us a reproof of our thoughts. He is grievous to us even to behold, Because his life is unlike other men’s, And his paths are of strange fashion. We were accounted […]
⛓ Read Wisdom of Solomon 2 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 wicked plot against the righteous one, reproaching and persecuting him to test his patience; Second Temple background for the persecuted-righteous beatitudes.
Medium confidenceThe deuterocanonical plot of the wicked conspiring to condemn the righteous one to a shameful death anticipates the persecution/killing of the sent righteous in vv34-35.
Low confidence