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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 10:3 → Genesis 31:11

Echo

Later text

Acts 10:3BSB

One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”

Earlier text

Genesis 31:11BSB

In that dream the angel of God said to me, 'Jacob!' And I replied, 'Here I am.'

Significance

Cornelius's "clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, 'Cornelius!'" (Acts 10:3) stands in a long line of divine self-disclosures in which God addresses His servants by name through an angel in a vision or dream — as "the angel of God said to me, 'Jacob!' And I replied, 'Here I am'" (Genesis 31:11). The pattern belongs to the unfolding history of revelation: the same personal God who spoke long ago to the fathers breaks in to direct His purposes and is met with reverent fear. Here the ancient mode of angelic address is bent toward a new end — not the founding of the patriarchal family, but the opening of the covenant to the Gentiles through the gospel of the risen Christ.

Found via: G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression