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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 7:55 → Isaiah 6:1

Allusion

Later text

Acts 7:55BSB

But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

Earlier text

Isaiah 6:1BSB

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Psalms 63:2BSB

So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

Earlier text

Psalms 110:1BSB

A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord: "Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet."

Walk the Square · this video walks Acts 7:54-57 as a whole, from Acts 7.56 → Daniel 7.13-1413:45

Significance

"But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God" (Acts 7:55). At the moment of his rejection, Stephen is granted what Isaiah received in the temple — a vision of the enthroned glory of God (Isaiah 6:1) — but now the glory is shared: Jesus stands at God's right hand. What Isaiah saw as "the Lord... high and exalted" John identifies as the glory of Christ (John 12:41), and Stephen beholds it directly. The vision answers his whole argument: God's glory is not shut inside the temple his accusers defend but blazes open to the martyr full of the Spirit, and at its center stands the rejected Righteous One, exalted. Here the vault's life verse is enacted — a face turned toward the unveiled glory of the Lord and transformed into his image even as the stones fly (2 Corinthians 3:18): beholding become the martyr's becoming.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology

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Heavenly Sanctuary (The True Tabernacle) Trajectory Table