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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 18:25-26 → Exodus 32:8

Echo

Later text

Acts 18:25-26BSB

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John. And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him in and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

Earlier text

Exodus 32:8BSB

How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

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Earlier text

Deuteronomy 5:33BSB

You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:17

Significance

Luke twice describes right Christian instruction as "the way": Apollos "had been instructed in the way of the Lord," and Priscilla and Aquila "explained to him the way of God more accurately" (Acts 18:25-26). "The way of the LORD" is OT covenant language for the manner of life God requires and the teaching that describes it — the way Israel was commanded but from which, at the golden calf, they "turned aside from the way that I commanded them" (Exodus 32:8; cf. Deuteronomy 5:33). Where Israel abandoned the way, the church is taught it accurately, corrected and deepened by fellow believers. The gospel does not discard "the way of the Lord" but fills it out: the Christian movement is itself called "the Way" (Acts 9:2), because Christ is himself the way (John 14:6) — the path Israel lost, now walked in him.

Found via: G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson (eds.), Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (2007)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme