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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 17:31 → Psalms 9:9

Allusion

Later text

Acts 17:31BSB

For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

Earlier text

Psalms 9:9BSB

The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Psalms 96:13BSB

before the LORD, for He is coming—He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:51

Significance

Paul ends at judgment: God "has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed," giving proof by raising him from the dead (Acts 17:31). The phrase gathers up the Psalms' refrain that God "judges the world with justice" (Psalm 9:8; cf. Psalm 96:13), where Israel's confidence rested on the LORD's coming to set all things right. What the psalmists said of God, Paul now announces will be executed through a Man — the risen Jesus — so that the OT's promise of righteous judgment is fulfilled and personalized in Christ the appointed Judge. The resurrection is God's public pledge of this coming assize; and the same risen Judge is even now "a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble" (Psalm 9:9) for all who repent and take shelter in him.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment