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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 10:46 → Psalms 70:4

Echo

Later text

Acts 10:46BSB

For they heard them speaking in tongues and exalting God. Then Peter said,

Earlier text

Psalms 70:4BSB

May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified!”

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square14:22

Significance

"They heard them speaking in tongues and exalting God" (Acts 10:46). The magnifying or exalting of God is the native language of Israel's worship — "may those who love Your salvation always say, 'Let God be magnified!'" (Psalms 70:4; cf. 34:3). The Gentile believers, filled with the Spirit, spontaneously take up the very praise the Psalms had taught the covenant people, evidence that the same God is now worshiped by the nations in the same terms. The connection is a shared vocabulary of praise rather than a developed trajectory; its force is confirmatory — the Gentiles' Spirit-given exaltation of God is the audible sign that they have received what Israel received, and that the wall between them has fallen in 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): Longitudinal Theme (the praise of "those who love Your salvation", "Let God be magnified!", taken up by the nations)