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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 12:22 → Ezekiel 28:2

Allusion

Later text

Acts 12:22BSB

And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”

Earlier text

Ezekiel 28:2BSB

"Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, 'I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.' Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.

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Earlier text

Ezekiel 26:2BSB

“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:32

Significance

The crowd's flattery — "This is the voice of a god, not a man!" (Acts 12:22) — and Herod's fatal failure to give glory to God (Acts 12:23) replay a pattern Scripture indicts again and again: the ruler who exalts himself to the place of deity. Ezekiel's oracle against the prince of Tyre is its classic form: "Your heart is proud, and you have said, 'I am a god'... Yet you are a man and not a god" (Ezekiel 28:2). Herod is another such prince, and his death is the same divine verdict — the God who will not share His glory brings the self-deifying king to dust. The connection is analogical, a recurring pattern of hubris and judgment rather than a type pointing to Christ; indeed it stands in sharpest contrast to the true King who, being in very nature God, humbled Himself and was therefore exalted (Philippians 2:6-9). Where Herod grasped at glory and perished, Christ refused to grasp and was given the name above every name.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy