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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 5:12 → Genesis 3:6

Allusion

Later text

Romans 5:12BSB

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

Earlier text

Genesis 3:6BSB

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

Significance

Paul alludes to the Genesis account of Adam's sin as the entry point of sin and death into the world — "sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin." This is the foundation of Paul's Adam-Christ typology developed in Romans 5:12-21. Adam functions as a type of Christ (v. 14): as Adam's one act of disobedience brought condemnation and death to all humanity through corporate solidarity, so Christ's one act of obedience brings justification and life. The typology operates by both correspondence (one man's act affecting all) and escalation (grace abounds far more than the trespass).

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

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Israel (Corporate New-Adam) Trajectory Table