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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
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Intertextuality Pair

Luke 1:48 → 1 Samuel 2:1

Allusion

Later text

Luke 1:48BSB

For He has looked with favor on the humble state of His servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed.

Earlier text

1 Samuel 1:11BSB

And she made a vow, pleading, "O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head."

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Earlier text

1 Samuel 2:1BSB

At that time Hannah prayed: “My heart rejoices in the LORD in whom my horn is exalted. My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation.

Significance

Mary's Magnificat is patterned on Hannah's Song, the Old Testament's great hymn of reversal. Luke 1:48—"He has looked with favor on the humble state of His servant"—echoes Hannah's plea that the LORD "look upon the affliction of Your maidservant" (1 Samuel 1:11) and her celebration that God lifts up the lowly (1 Samuel 2:1-10). Both are humble servants whose God-given fruitfulness becomes the occasion for a song magnifying the God who regards the lowly and overturns human estimations of greatness. Hannah's son Samuel anointed Israel's first kings; Mary's Son is himself the King whose reign has no end—an escalation from the maker of kings to the Messiah he foreshadows.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy

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Hannah (Barren Mother of Promise) Trajectory Table