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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 11:1 → 1 Samuel 12:22

Allusion

Later text

Romans 11:1BSB

I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

Earlier text

1 Samuel 12:22BSB

Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:53

Significance

Paul alludes to Samuel's assurance and to judgment texts where God "rejected" Israel, establishing tension: Has rejection happened again? His answer: No, because a remnant exists — and he is himself the specimen, "an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin." The tie is genuinely verbal, and it is LXX-form: Paul's ἀπώσατο locks onto the LXX clause of 1 Samuel 12:22 through the uncommon verb ἀπωθέω (G683) with λαός (G2992). It is best labeled an echo of a stock covenant-assurance formula rather than a node-specific citation of Samuel: Psalm 94:14 ("For the LORD will not forsake His people") is an equal donor of the same clause, and the formula's force is covenantal rather than tribal.

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

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