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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 7:2 → Psalms 29:3

Echo

Later text

Acts 7:2BSB

And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

Earlier text

Psalms 29:3BSB

The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters.

Walk the Square · this video walks Acts 7:2-8 as a whole, from Acts 7.5 → Genesis 17.815:03

Significance

Stephen's opening address — "The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham" (ho theos tēs doxēs ōphthē tō patri hēmōn Abraam) — employs the distinctive epithet "God of glory" (ho theos tēs doxēs) found in the LXX of Ps 29:3: "The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders" (ho theos tēs doxēs ebronte). Psalm 29 celebrates Yahweh's theophanic voice-storm, and the title "God of glory" designates the One who appears in awe-inspiring divine manifestation. Stephen's use of this title at the opening of his historical survey connects Abraham's visionary encounter with the same glory-theophany that Ps 29 celebrates — establishing from the start that Israel's history is a story of divine appearances in glory that culminate in the glory-presence Stephen himself sees in Acts 7:55 ("full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God").

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy + Redemptive-Historical Progression