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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 11:2-4 → 1 Kings 19:10

Quotation

Later text

Romans 11:2BSB

God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:

Earlier text

1 Kings 19:10BSB

“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

1 Kings 19:18BSB

Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”

Significance

Paul applies the Elijah narrative analogically: Just as God preserved a remnant in Elijah's day (7,000), so now God has preserved a remnant. Elijah's despair was unfounded then; Jewish Christian despair is unfounded now. The shared vocabulary is remnant vocabulary, not the inscription-and-erasure language of the book-of-life register, so the pair grounds the doctrine of the sovereignly chosen remnant that stands behind the register rather than anchoring the register itself.

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

Linked Mentions 4

Trajectory Tables 4