NT Allusions to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

 

testament of LEVI

 

 1.      Chapter 2:  [Levi passes through first heaven, into second, and is told he will enter the third, in which is the presence of the Lord.]

          2Cor 12.2: I know a person in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows.

 2.      3.2:  and contains fire, snow, and ice, ready for the day determined by God’s righteous judgment.  In it are all the spirits of those dispatchedto achieve the punishment of mankind.

         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.

 3.      3.6:  They present to the Lord a pleasing odor, a rational and bloodless oblation.

          Rom 12.1: I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

 4.      14.4:  For what will all the nations do if you become darkened with impiety?  You will bring down a curse on our nation, because you want to destroy the light of the Law which was granted to you for the enlightenment of every man, teaching commandments which are opposed to God’s just ordinances.

          Rom 2.22:  You say, “We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is in accordance with truth.”

 5.      18.7:  And the glory of the Most High shall burst forth upon him.  And the spirit of understanding and sanctification shall rest upon him.

          Rom 1.4: and was declared to be Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord

 6.      18.9:   And in his priesthood the nations shall be multiplied in knowledge on the earth and they shall be illumined by the grace of the Lord, but Israel shall be diminished by her ignorance and darkened by her grief.  In his priesthood sin chall cease and lawless men shall rest from their evil deeds, and righteous men shall find resti in him.

          Heb 9.26: for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself.