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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

Acts 1:20a → Psalms 69:25

Quotation

Later text

Acts 1:20BSB

"For it is written in the book of Psalms: 'May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,' and, 'May another take his position.'

Earlier text

Psalms 69:25BSB

May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.

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Significance

Peter explicitly cites "the book of Psalms" for both quotations in Acts 1:20, applying Ps 69:25 to Judas' abandoned property: "May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it." The LXX of Ps 69:25 reads genēthētō hē epaulis autōn erēmos ("let their camp become desolate"), and Peter applies the singular (autou, "his") rather than plural to pinpoint Judas specifically. Psalm 69 is one of the most extensively cited psalms in the NT passion narrative (cf. John 2:17; 15:25; 19:28-29; Rom 11:9-10; 15:3), functioning as a typological template for the Messiah's suffering and the judgment on his enemies. David's lament about his persecutors (Ps 69:4) is applied in John 15:25 to those who hated Jesus without cause, and now his curse against enemies becomes the framework for understanding Judas' fate — demonstrating that the apostolic community read the entire Psalm as a Davidic type pointing forward to Christ and those who betray him.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Typology (Direct Type, Backward-Looking) + Analogy

▸ The Reproaches

Hermeneutical Notes

NT Use Pattern: Assimilated — First half of the composite Psalm 69:25 + Psalm 109:8 quotation Peter uses to ground Judas's replacement — two imprecation psalms fused into a single apostolic warrant.

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Psalm 69 — The Reproaches

Acts 1:20a → Psalms 69:25

Significance

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Hermeneutical Notes