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Cross-Testament Parallels Summary — dan3-35

This synthesis study draws on parallel data already gathered across the dan3 series. Key cross-testament connections documented in prior studies:

Daniel 2:44 → NT Stone/Kingdom

  • Matt 21:44; Luke 20:18 (likmao chain from Dan 2:44 LXX)
  • Matt 12:28 (ephthasen — kingdom "has come")
  • Col 1:13 (metestēsen — "translated into the kingdom")
  • Heb 12:28 ("receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved")

Daniel 7:13-14 → NT Son of Man

  • Matt 24:30; 26:64 (Jesus applies to himself)
  • Rev 1:7 (every eye shall see him)
  • Rev 1:13-14 (Christological merger — fusing Dan 7:9 and 7:13)

Daniel 12:2 → Resurrection Passages

  • Isa 66:24 (dera'on hapax pair — permanent eschatological judgment)
  • John 5:28-29 (dual-outcome resurrection)
  • 1 Thess 4:16 (resurrection voice convergence with Dan 12:1-2)

Daniel 7:8,25 → Revelation 13:5-6

  • Rev 13:5 verbatim quotes Dan 7:8 LXX (stoma laloun megala)
  • Rev 13:1-2 composite beast absorbs all four Dan 7 beasts in reverse order
  • Rev 1:1 quotes Dan 2:28 LXX verbatim (ha dei genesthai)

Daniel 11:36 → 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

  • hyperairomenos (2 Thess 2:4) maps to yitromem (Dan 11:36)
  • Both describe self-exaltation above all that is called God
  • 2 Thess 2:7 "already works" — present-tense attestation c. AD 51