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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 9:17 → Exodus 3:2

Echo

Later text

Acts 9:17BSB

So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Earlier text

Exodus 3:2BSB

There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:29

Significance

Ananias lays hands on Saul with the words, "the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you came." The verb of divine appearing (ōphthē) is the same used when the LORD "appeared" to Moses in the flame of the burning bush (Exod 3:2) — the language of theophany, reserved in Scripture for God's own self-disclosure. Christ-terminus: to say that the risen Jesus "appeared" is to place Him on the God-ward side of that verb: He reveals Himself with the glory of the God of the fathers who spoke from the bush. The One who arrested Saul is no dead teacher but the living, glorious Lord, and the same appearing that struck Saul blind now, through Ananias, restores his sight and fills him with the Spirit — theophany bending toward mercy and mission.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy