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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 3:15-17 → Isaiah 59:7-8

Quotation

Later text

Romans 3:15-17BSB

“Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery lie in their wake, and the way of peace they have not known.”

Earlier text

Isaiah 59:7-8BSB

Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake. The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square8:20

Significance

Part of Paul's catena of OT quotations in Romans 3:10-18. Paul quotes Isaiah's indictment of Israel's sin — feet swift to shed blood, destruction and misery in their paths, the way of peace unknown to them — and applies it universally to demonstrate that all humanity stands condemned. Isaiah originally directed this accusation at Israel for its injustice and covenant unfaithfulness; Paul broadens the application to establish the universal scope of human sinfulness before God.

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

Hermeneutical Notes

NT Use Pattern: Assimilated — Tributary element of the Romans 3:10-18 catena — the only prophetic contribution (Isaiah 59:7-8) in an otherwise psalmic chain, lengthening the indictment to bloodshed and the way of peace.

See also: Romans 3:10-18 to Psalm 14:1 (full catena)