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Wisdom of Solomon 7:26

The New Testament’s use of Wisdom of Solomon

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

For she is an effulgence from everlasting light, And an unspotted mirror of the working of God, And an image of his goodness.

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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.

1 Cor 13:8-12 ?

Wisdom is 'a spotless mirror (esoptron) of the working of God.' Paul's 'we see in a mirror' (di' esoptrou) shares the rare mirror-as-medium-of-divine-knowledge image; the deuterocanonical sapiential mirror supplies availability for Paul's epistemological metaphor of indirect present sight.

Low confidence
2 Cor 3:16-18 ?

'As in a mirror' beholding glory and being transformed into the image may echo Wisdom 7:26, where Wisdom is 'the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of his goodness.' A Second-Temple availability echo linking mirror, image, and divine glory; faint and contested.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Wisdom of Solomon 7
Wisdom of Solomon 7:7 2Wisdom of Solomon 7:25-26 3