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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

Romans 10:6-8 → Deuteronomy 30:12

Quotation

Later text

Romans 10:6BSB

But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down)

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 30:12BSB

It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

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Earlier text

Deuteronomy 9:4BSB

When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square10:12

Significance

Paul reads Deuteronomy 30:12-14 with its own grain: the passage rests (via the opening "for" of 30:11) on the promise of 30:6 that the LORD himself will circumcise the heart, so Moses already speaks from the far side of exile and God-wrought renewal — and Paul, on the far side of the Christ-event, advances the same near word one epoch to the word of faith about Christ (redemptive-historical progression). The contrast he stages in Rom 10:5-8 runs between Leviticus 18:5's do-and-live and Deuteronomy 30's near word — one voice of Torah set against another, Moses against Moses — while the heaven/sea idiom of remoteness transfers analogically to Christ's incarnation and resurrection.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression (primary) + Contrast (co-primary — Lev 18:5 against Deut 30:12-14, not Paul against Moses) + NT References + Analogy

▸ The Word Is Near You

Hermeneutical Notes

NT Use Pattern: Assimilated/Composite Citation — Paul opens with Deut 9:4's "Do not say in your heart," replaces "cross the sea" with "descend into the Abyss," attaches a Christological gloss to each clause, and drops the closing "so that you may obey it," keeping the mouth-and-heart pair. Nothing on the Paul/Moses axis is negated or inverted — the citation reworks the wording while reading Deuteronomy's own faith-side voice with the grain.

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Deuteronomy 30:12-14 — The Word Is Near You

Romans 10:6-8 → Deuteronomy 30:12

Significance

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Hermeneutical Notes