Intertextuality Pair

Acts 3:25 → Genesis 22:18

Quotation

Later text

Acts 3:25BSB

And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, 'Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.'

Earlier text

Genesis 22:18BSB

And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."

Significance

Peter's quotation in Acts 3:25 — "Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed" (en tō spermati sou eneulogēthēsontai pasai hai patriai tēs gēs) — matches the LXX of Gen 22:18 more closely than Gen 12:3, with the specific phrase en tō spermati sou ("in your seed/offspring"), which Gen 12:3 lacks. (Paul's lemma at Gal 3:16 is a different formula — the land-grant "and to your seed" — so this verse is Peter's, not Paul's, seed-citation.) Gen 22:18 is the climactic form of the Abrahamic promise, sworn by God himself immediately after the near-sacrifice of Isaac. Peter quotes it as a promise now kept: the universal blessing through the "seed" is fulfilled in the risen Servant, and this fulfillment is now being preached to the same people who handed over the Son (Acts 3:13), yet to whom the blessing is offered first (3:26). (The Akedah's own typology — Isaac delivered up and received back, cf. Heb 11:19 — is traced in TT 077 Isaac and TT 003 Abraham and is cited here, not argued.)

Found via
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type
Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s)
Promise-Fulfillment

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