He said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;
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Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The “seven lamps of fire burning before his throne” identified as “the seven Spirits of God” fuses Zechariah's golden lampstand of seven lamps with his interpretation (Zech 4:6, 'not by might... but by my Spirit') and the sevenfold spirit of Isa 11:2. Distinctiveness: seven lamps explicitly equated with the divine Spirit(s) is a uniquely Zecharian configuration. NOTE: this verse's text could not be retrieved verbatim from bible-api.com (repeated HTTP 429); the bracketed WEB text is supplied from the World English Bible but was NOT fetched live and should be re-verified. Strong on coherence and recurrence (Rev 1:4; 5:6 also use the seven Spirits/seven lamps).
High confidenceThe 'seven golden lamp stands' develop Zechariah's single golden lampstand with seven lamps. Real verbal overlap (golden lampstand, sevenfold light), but John multiplies the one menorah into seven (the churches), a deliberate transformation, so medium.
Medium confidence