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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Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
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'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