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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 7:20 → Exodus 2:2

Allusion

Later text

Acts 7:20BSB

At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.

Earlier text

Exodus 2:2BSB

and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:57

Significance

With Moses' birth Stephen turns to Israel's second great deliverer. Moses "was beautiful in the sight of God" (Acts 7:20; Exodus 2:2) — a child marked from the womb for God's purpose, preserved through Pharaoh's murderous decree. Stephen's careful attention to Moses is strategic, for his accusers revered Moses above all; by rehearsing how God raised Moses up, Stephen prepares to show that Israel rejected this God-given deliverer just as their fathers rejected Joseph — and just as this generation has rejected the Prophet like Moses (7:37). The providence that guarded the infant deliverer against a king's decree is the same providence that later guarded the infant Christ against Herod's sword (Matthew 2:13-15), preserving the true Deliverer for the salvation of his people.

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