NT Allusions to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

 

2 baruch

 

 1.      14.8-9:  O Lord, my Lord, who can understand your judgment?  Or who can explore the depth of your way?  Or who can discern the majesty of your path?  Or who can discern your incomprehensible counsel?  Or who of those who are born has ever discovered the beginning and the end of your wisdom?

          Rom 11.33: O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

 2.      14.13:  Therefore, they leave this world without fear and are confident of the world which you have promised to them with an expectation full of joy.

          Rom 4.13: For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

 3.      15.8:  For this world is to them a struggle and an effort with much trouble.  And that accordingly which shall come, a crown with great glory.

          Rom 8.18: I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.

 4.      21.13:  For is only this life exists which everyone possesses here, nothing could be more bitter than this.

          1Cor 15.19: If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

 5.      23.4:  For when Adam sinned and death was decreed against those who were to be born, the multitude of those who would be born was numbered.  And for that number a place was prepared where the living ones might live and where the dead might be preserved.

          Rom 5.12: Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned 

6.      32.6:  For greater than the two evils will be the trial when the Mighty One will renew his creation.

          Rom 8.18:  I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.

 7.      48.8:  With signs of fear and threat you command the flames, and they change into winds.  And this the word you bring to life that which does not exist, and with great power you hold that which has not yet come. 

         Rom 4.17: as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. 

8.      48.22:  In you we have put our trust, because, behold, your Law is with us, and we know that we do not fall as long as we keep your statutes.

          Rom 2.17: But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God 

9.      51.3:  Also, as for the glory of those who proved to be righteous on account of my law, those who possessed intelligence in their life, and those who planted the root of wisdom in their heart – their splendor will then be glorified by transformations, and the shape of their face will be changed into the light of their beauty so that they may acquire and receive the undying world which is promised to them.

          Rom 4.13: For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

 10.     54.10:  Blessed is my mother among those who bear, and praised among women is she who bore me.

          Lk 1.42: and exclaimed with a loud cry, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.

 11.     54.15:  For although Adam sinned first and has brought death upon all who were not in his own time, yet each of them who has been born from him has prepared for himself the coming torment.

          Rom 5.12: Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned 

12.     54.17-18:  But now, turn yourselves to destruction, you unrighteous ones who are living now, for you will be visited suddenly, since you have once rejected the understanding of the Most High.  For his works have not taught you, nor has the artful work of his creation which has existed always persuaded you.

          Rom 1.19: For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.

 13.     57.2:  For at that time the unwritten law was in force among them, and the works of the commandments were accomplished at that time, and the belief in the coming judgment was brought about, and the hope of the world which will be renewed was built at that time, and the promise of the life that will come later was planted. 

         Rom 2.15: They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, to which their own conscience also bears witness; and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them

 14.     59.6:  the suppression of wrath, the abundance of long-suffering, the truth of judgment

          Rom 9.22: What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction