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Wisdom of Solomon 2:19-20

The New Testament’s use of Wisdom of Solomon

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

With outrage and torture let us put him to the test, That we may learn his gentleness, And may prove his patience under wrong. Let us condemn him to a shameful death; For he will be visited according to his words.

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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.

Matt 27:27-31

The ungodly plot: 'Let us test him with insult and torture... condemn him to a shameful death' — Second-Temple text describing the persecution and mocking of the righteous son of God, closely paralleling the mockery of Jesus who is condemned and tortured as God's son.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Phil 2:5-8 ?

The righteous one condemned 'to a shameful death' who tests God's claim coheres with Christ's obedient death on the cross and subsequent vindication. Wisdom 2-5 was available and shares the suffering-then-vindicated righteous pattern, but lexical overlap with Philippians is thin, so this is a faint contested echo.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Wisdom of Solomon 2
Wisdom of Solomon 2:12-20 2Wisdom of Solomon 2:23-24 2Wisdom of Solomon 2:24 3