NT Allusions to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

 

from greek writers

 

 1.      Aratus, Phaenomena, 5: 

          Ac 17.28: For “In him we live and move and have our being;” as even some of your own poets have said, “For we too are his offspring.” 

1a.     Epimenides of Crete?  Posidonius?: 

          Ac 17.28: For “In him we live and move and have our being;” as even some of your own poets have said, “For we too are his offspring.”

 2.      Epimenides, De Oraculis/Peri Chrēsmōn: 

          Tt 1.12: It was one of them, their very own prophet, who said, "Cretans are always liars, vicious brutes, lazy gluttons."

 3.      Euripides, Bacchae, 794:  If I were you, I would offer him a sacrifice, not rage and kick against the goad, a man defying God.

          Ac 26.14:  When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It hurts you to kick against the goads.”

 4.      Heraclitus:  ?

          2Pt 2.22: It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns back to its own vomit," and, "The sow is washed only to wallow in the mud."

 5.      Julianus, Or 8.246b:  ?  [see also 3, above]

          Ac 26.14: When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It hurts you to kick against the goads.” 

6.      Menander, Thaïs, 218:  ?

          1Cor 15.33: Do not be deceived:  “Bad company ruins good morals.”

 7.      Thucydides, II 97.4:  For there was here established a custom opposite to that prevailing in the Persian kingdom, namely, of taking rather than giving; more disgrace being attached to not giving when asked than to asking and being refused; and although this prevailed elsewhere in Thrace, it was practised most extensively among the powerful Odrysians, it being impossible to get anything done without a present.

          Ac 20.35:  In all this I have given you an example that by such work we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for he himself said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”