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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Romans 15:9 → Psalm 18:49

Quotation

Later text

Romans 15:9BSB

so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: "Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name."

Earlier text

Psalm 18:49BSB

Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

2 Samuel 22:50BSB

Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.

Earlier text

Psalm 27:6BSB

Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.

Earlier text

Psalm 107:22BSB

Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square9:36

Significance

David's thanksgiving for deliverance from enemies is spoken by the risen Christ among the Gentiles. Christ confesses God's name to the nations, and the "singing sufferer" pattern reaches its universal scope — David's personal song becomes Christ's song among all nations, leading the Gentiles in glorifying God for His mercy (Rom 15:7-13). Paul omits "Lord" to clarify Christ is speaking TO God, not identified with God here (though identification occurs in 15:11). The thanksgiving psalms form a "sacrifice of praise" vocabulary complex underlying Paul's temple-building metaphor in Romans 15: the language of building suggests temple imagery — the eschatological temple of the Lord constructed out of human beings, Jews and Gentiles, among whom God now dwells (15:20). The apostle's "priestly service" (hierourgeō, 15:16) connects to the sacrificial-thanksgiving language of these psalms, and Paul's "confession/praise" (exomologeō) in 15:9 echoes the thanksgiving-sacrifice vocabulary, particularly as it relates to the Hiphil of yādâ ("give thanks/praise"). These psalms establish the cultic-worship framework for understanding the Gentiles' incorporation into the people of God as an act of eschatological temple building.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment (prosopological — primary) + Corporate Solidarity (basis); Typology subordinate and backward-looking (Davidic office owned by TT 041/042/004/129)

Hermeneutical Notes

NT Use Pattern: Assimilated — First element of Paul's four-text catena (Ps 18:49 / 2 Sam 22:50 + Deut 32:43 + Ps 117:1 + Isa 11:10) confirming Gentile praise of God.

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 2