Because God created man for incorruption, And made him an image of his own proper being; But by the envy of the devil death entered into the world, And those who are of his portion make trial thereof.
⛓ 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"Through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin" (5:12): "God created man for incorruption... but through the devil's envy death entered the world." The closest Second Temple parallel, sharing the precise idiom "death entered the world" (eiselthen... thanatos) and tracing universal death to a primeval cause. Paul localizes the cause in Adam's trespass rather than the devil's envy.
High confidenceDeuterocanonical: 'God created man for incorruption... but through the devil's envy death entered the world' (cf. 1:13, 'God did not make death'). A Second-Temple articulation that death is the intruding wage of sin, thematically close to 'the wages of sin is death' (6:23). Contested.
Low confidence