ABSTRACT
It may be surprising to some that allusions to, let alone quotations of, the book of Ezekiel in the New Testament are not very common. A quick glance at the lists of possible allusions to OT books in Nestle-Aland's Novum Testamentum Graece shows many such allusions in the book of Revelation, but relatively few elsewhere. The abundance of such allusions in Revelation is perhaps not surprising in one way given the prominence given there to ideas associated with the new temple. Given too the general tendency of the author of the book of Revelation to soak up and then use biblical language, it is not unexpected that the vision of the new temple in Ezekiel provided the source for some of the verbal imagery of Revelation.
