Later text
Acts 13:48BSB
When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
Intertextuality Pair
Acts 13:48 → Exodus 32:32-33
Echo
Earlier text
Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.” The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.
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Earlier text
Daniel 12:1BSB
“At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
Earlier text
Psalms 69:28BSB
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
Significance
"All who were appointed for eternal life believed" (Acts 13:48). Luke's language of divine appointment draws on the Old Testament image of God's register of His people — the book from which a name may be blotted: "blot me out of the book that You have written," Moses pleads, and the LORD answers that whoever has sinned against Him He will blot out of His book (Exodus 32:32-33; cf. Psalms 69:28; Daniel 12:1). To be appointed for eternal life is to be written in that book, and such appointment, not human initiative, is the wellspring of faith: those ordained to life believe. The connection carries a canon-wide motif of election recorded in heaven, culminating in the Lamb's book of life (Revelation 21:27). Its comfort is Christ-centered: the elect are those given to the Son (John 6:37), whose names stand secure because the Lamb was slain — so that faith is the evidence, not the cause, of a grace determined before the foundation of the world.
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