I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
⛓ Read Zechariah 13 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.
Refining the remnant in fire 'as gold is tested' until 'they will call on my name' — behind 'buy from me gold refined by fire' (3:18). Refinement-by-fire + covenant-renewal motif. High thematic coherence.
High confidence'I will refine them as one refines silver and test them as gold is tested,' set in an eschatological remnant-purification, supplies the trial-as-refinement frame of 1:6-7; verbal contact (refine/test, gold) plus eschatological coherence.
Medium confidenceEcho5
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God brings a third through the fire, refining them as silver and testing them as gold is tested. Paul's 'tested by fire,' with the survivor saved 'but as through fire' (3:15), coheres with Zechariah's image of passing through refining fire and being purified rather than destroyed. The refine-as-silver/test-as-gold language reinforces the metallurgical testing motif.
Medium confidence"I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and try them as gold" closely parallels the testing-by-fire of God's remnant in 4:12. Strong thematic and verbal coherence.
Medium confidenceGod will 'put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver' divides a remnant by fire and trial. The refining-fire-that-divides motif coheres with both the fire and the division Jesus brings rather than peace.
Medium confidenceBringing the remnant through the fire to refine them lies faintly behind 'everyone will be salted with fire,' if the fire is read as purifying rather than only punitive. The refining-fire motif coheres with a disciple-formation reading of the saying. Low volume and contested.
Low confidenceThe refining of a remnant through fire so that those who endure are saved while two-thirds perish (Zech 13:8-9) supplies the testing-and-remnant pattern behind enduring to the end for salvation.
Low confidence