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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 24:5 → 1 Samuel 1:16

Echo

Later text

Acts 24:5BSB

We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

Earlier text

1 Samuel 1:16BSB

Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief."

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Earlier text

Psalms 1:1BSB

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

Earlier text

Proverbs 22:10BSB

Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square14:16

Significance

Tertullus opens the prosecution by branding Paul "a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world" (Acts 24:5). To call a troublesome person a "pestilence" (Greek loimos) is idiomatic in the Septuagint, which uses the same word where Hannah begs not to be reckoned "a daughter of pestilence" (1 Samuel 1:16 LXX) and where the blessed man refuses "the seat of the pestilent" (Psalm 1:1 LXX; cf. Proverbs 22:10). The slander casts Paul as a social contagion to be expelled. The irony, characteristic of Luke's trial scenes, is that the label properly belongs to those who reject the gospel, not to its herald: Paul is no plague but a physician of souls. The world's verdict on Christ's servants inverts the truth, as it did with the Master, who was numbered with transgressors while bearing the healing of the nations.

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): Analogy (a worshiper misjudged as worthless: Hannah by Eli, Paul by Tertullus, as the Righteous One was charged before him, Luke 23:2, 5)