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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 12:8-9 → Daniel 7:13-14

Allusion

Later text

Luke 12:8-9BSB

I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God. But whoever denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.

Earlier text

Daniel 7:13-14BSB

In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence. And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

Significance

"Everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God; but whoever denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God" (Luke 12:8-9). The scene is the heavenly court of Daniel 7: the Son of Man stands before the assembled angelic host ("thousands upon thousands attended Him," Dan 7:10) and there acts as the decisive witness whose acknowledgment or disavowal settles a person's standing in the final judgment. The authority to determine destinies in the heavenly tribunal belongs, in Daniel, to the Son of Man who has received "dominion, glory, and kingship." The connection is promise-fulfillment: the judicial role granted the Danielic Son of Man is exercised by Jesus, who identifies Himself as that Son of Man and ties every person's eternal verdict to their relationship with Him. The telos is the Son of Man as advocate — the enthroned King who is not ashamed to confess before the angels of God those who confess Him, so that allegiance to Him is no fearful gamble but glad confidence in the One whose acknowledgment is the believer's joy and security.

Found via: Beale & Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Baker, 2007)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

▸ The Son of Man Receiving Dominion

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Daniel 7:13-14 — The Son of Man Receiving Dominion

Luke 12:8-9 → Daniel 7:13-14

Significance

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