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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 7:33 → Exodus 3:7

Allusion

Later text

Acts 7:33BSB

Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

Earlier text

Exodus 3:7BSB

The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:33

Significance

"'Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground'" (Acts 7:33; Exodus 3:5-7). The ground is holy not because of its location but because of the One who is present there; the wilderness dust becomes sacred space when God draws near. Stephen's citation strikes at the heart of the charge against him: holiness attaches to God's presence, not to a building in Jerusalem, and God's presence is not confined to any place. The same LORD who hallowed a patch of Midianite desert would, in Christ, make holy every place where his people gather in his name, and would tear the veil so that they draw near without barrier — for the true holy ground is the presence of God himself, now opened to all in the Son.

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

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