NT Allusions to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

 

PSALMS OF SOLOMON

 

 1.      1.5:  They exalted themselves to the stars, they said they would never fall.

          Mt 11.23: And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades. For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

 2.      Blessed are those who fear God in their innocence; the Lord shall save them from deceitful and sinful people and save us from every evil snare.

          2Tim 3.11: my persecutions, and my suffering the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

 3.      4.25, etc.:  Lord, let your mercy be upon all those who love you.

          Rom 8.28: We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.

 4.      5.3:  For no one takes plunder away from a strong man, so who is going to take (anything) from all that you have done, unless you give (it)?

          Mk 3.27: But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.

          [UBS4] Lk 11.21-22: But when one stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his plunder.

 5.      5.9-11:  You feed the birds and the fish, as you send rain to the wilderness that the grass may sprout, to provide pasture in the wilderness for every living thing, and if they are hungry, they will lift up their face to you.  You feed kings and rulers and peoples, O God, and who is the hope of the poor and the needy, if not you, Lord?

          Mt 6.26: Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

 6.      7.1:  Do not move away from us, O God, lest those who hate us without cause should attack us.

          Jn 15.25: It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, “They hated me without a cause.”

 7.      7.6:  While your name lives among us, we shall receive mercy and the gentile will not overcome us.

          Jn 1.14: And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.

 8.      8.2:  The sound of many people as of a violent storm, as a raging fire storm sweeping through the wilderness.

          Rev 19.1: After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power to our God,

 9.      9.2:  Because of this God mixed them (a drink) of a wavering spirit, and gave them a cup of undiluted wine to make them drunk.

          1Jn 4.6: We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

 10.     8.15:  He brought someone from the end of the earth, one who attacks in strength; he declared war against Jerusalem and her land.

          Ac 1.8: But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

 11.     8.28:  Bring together the dispersed of Israel with mercy and goodness, for your faithfulness is with us.

          Rom 3.3: What if some were unfaithful? Will their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?

 12.     9.5:  The one who does what is right saves up life for himself with the Lord, and the one who does what is wrong causes his own life to be destroyed; for the Lord’s righteous judgments are according to the individual and the household.

          Rom 2.5: But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

 13.     10.2:  The one who prepares (his) back for the whip shall be purified, for the Lord is good to those who endure discipline.

          Heb 12.7: Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children; for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline?

 14.     12.6:  May the salvation of the Lord be upon Israel his servant forever; may the wicked perish once and for all from before the Lord.  And may the Lord’s devout inherit the Lord’s promises.

          Heb 6.12: so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

 15.     14.1:  The Lord is faithful to those who truly love him, to those who endure his discipline.

          Rom 7.10: and I died, and the very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.

 16.     14.3:  The Lord’s devout shall live by it forever; the Lord’s paradise, the trees of life, are his devout ones.

          Rev 22.2: through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

 17.     15.2-3:  For who, O God, is strong except he who confesses you in truth; and what person is powerful except he who confesses you name?  A new psalm with song with a happy heart, the fruit of the lips with the tuned instrument of the tongue, the first fruits of the lips from a devout and righteous heart.

          Heb 13.15: Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.

 18.     15.8:  But they shall pursue sinners and overtake them, for those who act lawlessly shall not escape the Lord’s judgment.

          Rom 2.3: Do you imagine, whoever you are, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God?

 19.     16.5:  I will give thanks to you, O God, who came to my aid for (my) salvation, and who did not count me with the sinners for (my) destruction.

          Lk 22.37: For I tell you, this scripture must be fulfilled in me, ‘And he was counted among the lawless;’ and indeed what is written about me is being fulfilled.

 20.     17.1:  Lord, you are our king forevermore; for in you, O God, does our soul take pride.

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

 21.     17.21:  See, Lord, and raise up for them their king, the son of David, to rule over your servant Israel in the time known to you, O God.

          Jn 7.42: Has not the scripture said that the Messiah is descended from David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?

          *Mt 24.36: But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

 22.     17.23-24:  In wisdom and in righteousness to drive out the sinners from the inheritance; to smash the arrogance of sinners like a potter’s jar; To shatter all their substance with an iron rod; to destroy the unlawful nations with the word of his mouth;

          Rev 2.27: to rule them with an iron rod, as when clay pots are shattered

 23.     17.25:  At his warning the nations will flee from his presence; and he will condemn sinners by the thoughts of their hearts.

          Lk 21.24: they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

 24.     17.26, 29:  He will gather a holy people whom he will lead in righteousness; and he will judge the tribes of the people that have been made holy by the Lord their God. ....  He will judge peoples and nations in the wisdom of his righteousness.  Pause.

          Mt 19.28: Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man is seated on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

 25.     17.30:  And he will have gentile nations serving him under his yoke, and he will glorify the Lord in a place prominent above the whole earth.  And he will purge Jerusalem and make it holy as it was even from the beginning.

          Mt 21.12: Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

 26.     [UBS4] 17.31, 34:  for nations to come from the ends of the earth to see his glory, to bring as gifts her children who had been driven out, and to see the glory of the Lord with which God has glorified her.  ....  The Lord himself is his king, the hope of the one who has a strong hope in God.  He shall be compassionate to all the nations who reverently stand before him.

          Rev 21.24, 26:  The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.  ....  People will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.

 27.     17.32:  And he will be a righteous king over them, taught by God.  There will be no unrighteousness among them in his days, for all shall be holy, and their king shall be the Lord Messiah.

          Lk 2.11: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord.

 28.     17.36:  And he himself will be free from sin, in order to rule a great people.  He will expose officials and drive out sinners by the strength of his word.

          Heb 4.15: For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.

 29.     17.43:  His words will be purer than the finest gold, the best.  He will judge the peoples in the assemblies, the tribes of the sanctified.  His words will be as the words of the holy ones, among sanctified peoples.

          Rev 3.18: Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich; and white robes to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen; and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

 30.     18.6-7:  Blessed are those born in those days, to see the good things of the Lord which he will do for the coming generation; which will be under the rod of discipline of the Lord Messiah, in the fear of his God, in wisdom of spirit, and of righteousness and of strength

          Mt 13.6 [?]:But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away.

          *Mt 24.19: Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days!

 31.     18.10:  Our God is great and glorious, living in the highest heavens, who arranges the stars into orbits to mark the time of the hours from day to day.  And they have not deviated from their course, which he appointed them.

          Lk 2.14: "Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among those whom he favors!"