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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
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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 9:58 → Psalms 8:1

Allusion

Later text

Luke 9:58BSB

Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

Earlier text

Psalms 8:1BSB

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

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Significance

"Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head" (Luke 9:58). The saying gains its edge against Psalm 8, David's meditation on the dignity God gave to man: "what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him? You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor," setting under his feet the beasts of the field and the birds of the air. The very creatures Psalm 8 places under the son of man's dominion are here better housed than he is. The method is Contrast: the "son of man" crowned with glory and given the animals as his domain now owns less shelter than a fox. But the contrast is the path, not the end. Hebrews 2 reads Psalm 8 of Jesus in exactly this way — not yet seeing all things subject to Him, but seeing Him "crowned with glory and honor" on the far side of suffering. The homelessness is the road by which the true Son of Man reclaims the dominion Psalm 8 promised, so that the King who had nowhere to lay His head is the One worth following wherever He goes, at whatever cost.

Found via: G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson (eds.), Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Baker, 2007) — attribution only; TOSK's Luke 9:58 entry does not carry Psalm 8, and John Gill's exposition of Luke 9:58 does not reference it.
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Contrast

▸ What Is Man

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Anchor Texts 1

Psalm 8 — What Is Man

Luke 9:58 → Psalms 8:1

Significance

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