Later text
Acts 20:32BSB
And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
Intertextuality Pair
Acts 20:32 → Genesis 15:7
Allusion
Earlier text
Genesis 15:7BSB
The LORD also told him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."
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Earlier text
Exodus 15:17BSB
You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
Earlier text
Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words— the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.
Earlier text
Joshua 11:23BSB
So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
Significance
Paul commits the elders "to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified" (Acts 20:32). The language of a divinely-given inheritance reaches back to the promise to Abraham — "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess" (Genesis 15:7) — and Israel's entry into its allotted land. What was land is now transposed: the inheritance is fellowship among all who are sanctified, the people of God themselves as God's portion. The Abrahamic promise of an inheritance is not cancelled but deepened and widened in Christ, in whom believers obtain an inheritance imperishable and kept in heaven (Ephesians 1:11; 1 Peter 1:4) — the land-promise arriving at its true home in the God who is himself the portion of his people.
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