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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

John 16:25 → Sirach 39:3

Echo

Later text

John 16:25BSB

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Earlier text

Significance

Paroimia covers wide range of parabolic and allegorical discourse in biblical and extrabiblical literature.

Found via: G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (the title anchor, Sirach, is deuterocanonical — not canonical Scripture)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None — lexical background note, not an intertext: Sirach illustrates the range of paroimia (G3942, "figures of speech" in John 16:25) as parabolic/allegorical discourse rendering Hebrew mashal; the anchor is deuterocanonical and John makes no use of the Sirach passage itself.