But the righteous live forever, And in the Lord is their reward, And the care for them with the Most High. Therefore will they receive the crown of royal dignity And the diadem of beauty from the Lord’s hand; Because with his right hand will he cover them, And with his arm will he shield them.
⛓ Read Wisdom of Solomon 5 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 righteous live forever... they will receive a glorious crown... from the Lord's hand' parallels the imperishable, heaven-reserved inheritance and the 'praise, glory, and honor' of 1:7; Second Temple thematic coherence.
Low confidence'The righteous live forever, and their reward is with the Lord... they will receive a glorious crown' resonates with being 'more than conquerors' and inseparable from God's love (vv.37-39).
Low confidence