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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Acts 10:34 → Leviticus 19:15

Allusion

Later text

Acts 10:34BSB

Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

Earlier text

Leviticus 19:15BSB

You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 10:17BSB

For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 28:50BSB

a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

Earlier text

1 Chronicles 19:7BSB

So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba while the Ammonites came from their cities and marched out for battle.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:35

Significance

"I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism" (Acts 10:34). Peter's confession draws on the settled Old Testament witness to the divine impartiality, mirrored in the Law that governed Israel's courts: "You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly" (Leviticus 19:15; cf. Deuteronomy 10:17). What the Law required of judges because it is true of God, Peter now sees breaking its ethnic boundary: the impartial God "welcomes those from every nation who fear Him" (Acts 10:35). The connection is analogical — the character of God long confessed is now applied to the inclusion of the Gentiles — and it exposes as unfounded any assumption that covenant privilege secured favored standing. In Christ the impartial Judge is also the impartial Savior, and the door stands open to all.

Found via: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy