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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 11:35 → Job 41:11

Allusion

Later text

Romans 11:35BSB

“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”

Earlier text

Job 41:11BSB

Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square8:09

Significance

No one can put God in debt. Applied to salvation: God's mercy cannot be earned or obligated by human works.

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