He will put on righteousness as a breastplate, And will array himself with judgement unfeigned as with a helmet;
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Wisdom, itself dependent on Isa 59:17, depicts the Lord taking 'holiness as an invincible shield' and putting on righteousness as a breastplate, arming creation against enemies. It is a likely mediating deuterocanonical witness for Paul's armor imagery in 5:8.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Wisdom's reworking of Isaiah ('he will put on righteousness as a breastplate') is the proximate Second-Temple form Paul knows, reinforcing the breastplate piece. Recurrence of the Isaiah image through Wisdom strengthens coherence even where Isaiah is the ultimate source.
Medium confidence