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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 17:24 → Genesis 1:1

Allusion

Later text

Acts 17:24BSB

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.

Earlier text

Genesis 1:1BSB

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Exodus 20:11BSB

For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

Earlier text

Isaiah 42:5BSB

This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

Earlier text

Psalms 146:6BSB

the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.

Significance

Paul opens his Areopagus address by naming God as "the God who made the world and everything in it," the "Lord of heaven and earth" who "does not live in temples made by human hands" (Acts 17:24) — a compressed confession of Genesis 1:1 and the whole OT creation faith (Exodus 20:11; Isaiah 42:5; Psalm 146:6). Against Athenian religion, the Maker of all cannot be housed or supplied by his creatures. Paul thus builds his gospel on the bedrock of creation: the God who is coming to judge, and who raised Jesus (Acts 17:31), is none other than the God who spoke the cosmos into being. To know this Creator rightly is to abandon idols and, at last, to behold him in the risen Man he has appointed — the one through whom all things were made (John 1:3), in whom the Creator is finally seen.

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

▸ In the Beginning

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Genesis 1:1 — In the Beginning

Acts 17:24 → Genesis 1:1

Significance

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