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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 26:17 → 1 Chronicles 16:35

Allusion

Later text

Acts 26:17BSB

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

Earlier text

1 Chronicles 16:35BSB

Then cry out: ‘Save us, O God of our salvation; gather and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.’

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Jeremiah 1:8BSB

Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you," declares the LORD.

Significance

The risen Lord promises Paul, "I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them" (Acts 26:17). The pledge of rescue echoes Israel's prayer, "Save us, O God of our salvation; gather and deliver us from the nations" (1 Chronicles 16:35), and still more the assurance to Jeremiah at his call, "Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you" (Jeremiah 1:8). The God who guards his sent ones amid hostile peoples now guards his apostle, so that the mission cannot be cut short until its purpose is complete. The deliverance is not from suffering but through it, for the sending is the point — Paul is preserved to preach. This is the pattern of Christ's servants, kept by the Lord until their work is finished, that the light might reach the nations to whom they are sent.

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