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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Through the devil's envy death entered the world,' an early identification of the Genesis serpent with the devil. This deuterocanonical reading directly supports John's claim that 'he who sins is of the devil.' It bridges Genesis 3 to John's explicit devil terminology.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Through the devil's envy death entered the world' supplies the Second Temple reading of Genesis 3 that Paul presupposes—personified agency (sin/devil) bringing death through the primal commandment, behind 7:8-11.
Medium confidenceWisdom 2:24 is the standard Second Temple text identifying the devil with the bringer of death, exactly the equation Heb 2:14 makes (‘him who had the power of death, that is, the devil’). Beale & Carson cite it for the conceptual background; verbal volume is nil and the source deuterocanonical, hence low confidence and an echo at the level of shared idea.
Low confidence