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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 2:24-28 → Job 39:2

Echo

Later text

Acts 2:24-28BSB

But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches. David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell in hope, because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay. You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’

Earlier text

Job 39:2BSB

Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?

Significance

Peter declares that God raised Jesus, “freeing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches” (Acts 2:24). The word rendered “agony” (odines) is the language of birth-pangs, lying behind the psalmist’s “cords of death” and behind the counting of the months of travail until the young are brought forth (Job 39:2). Death is imaged as a labor that cannot but issue in life: the grave, straining to hold the Author of life, is forced to deliver Him up. Peter grounds this in David’s confidence that God “will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let Your Holy One see decay” (Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27) — words David could not speak of himself but the risen Christ fulfills. The resurrection is thus the firstborn birth out of death, the pledge that all who are His will likewise be brought forth from the grave into unending life.

Found via: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy