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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
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Luke 1:72 → Ruth 1:8

Echo

Later text

Luke 1:72BSB

to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

Earlier text

Ruth 1:8BSB

Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you to your mother's home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:42

Significance

Significantly, it is within the expectation of the new exodus that the Abrahamic and Davidic covenants find their fulfillment (Acts 7:5; 13:34).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme