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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 10:40 → Hosea 6:2

Echo

Later text

Acts 10:40BSB

God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen—

Earlier text

Hosea 6:2BSB

After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Hosea 11:1BSB

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

Significance

"God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen" (Acts 10:40). The apostolic confession that Christ was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:4) answers Israel's hope of national revival: "After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence" (Hosea 6:2). These are Israel's own words in its call to return (6:1-3), not a divine oracle, and YHWH answers them with a rebuke of its fleeting loyalty (6:4). What a chastened Israel hoped for — resurrection-life after judgment — is realized first and representatively in Israel's Messiah, the true Israel, whose third-day rising is the firstfruits of the resurrection He shares with His people. The corporate hope is fulfilled in the individual, and through Him restored to the many: because He was raised, those who believe are raised with Him to live in His presence. The connection reads Hosea's third-day hope as brought, through corporate solidarity, to its head and its fulfillment in the risen Lord.

Found via: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment (corporate solidarity)