For she is a breath of the power of God, And a clear effluence of the glory of the Almighty; Therefore can nothing defiled find entrance into her. For she is an effulgence from everlasting light, And an unspotted mirror of the working of God, And an image of his goodness.
⛓ Read Wisdom of Solomon 7 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Image of the invisible God' (v.15) and the fullness/glory motifs draw on Wisdom personified as 'a breath of the power of God,' 'a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty,' 'a spotless mirror... and an image (eikon) of his goodness.' The eikon-of-the-invisible-God predicate is a near-direct Wisdom borrowing.
High confidenceThe marquee echo of the chapter. ‘Radiance of his glory… the very image of his substance’ (v. 3) reproduces the rare term apaugasma and the eikōn/glory pairing of Wis 7:25–26 — high verbal volume against a Second Temple text most scholars (Hays, Attridge, Beale & Carson) name as the direct source. Hebrews transfers what Wisdom says of personified Sophia to the Son. Confidence kept high despite low text-field availability, since bible-api serves only the Protestant canon.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Wisdom as 'a breath of the power of God... a pure emanation of his glory' offers the nearest Second-Temple background for Christ as 'the power of God and the wisdom of God' (v.24) 'made to us wisdom from God.' Availability is strong (deuterocanonical Wisdom was current), and the fusion of power and wisdom in a single divine agency coheres precisely.
Medium confidence