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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 5:14 → Genesis 3

Allusion

Later text

Romans 5:14BSB

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

Earlier text

Genesis 3:17-19BSB

And to Adam He said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return."

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

Significance

Paul explicitly identifies Adam as "a pattern of the One to come" (typos tou mellontos) — one of the clearest typological declarations in the NT. Adam's headship over humanity in the fall prefigures Christ's headship over the redeemed in salvation. Yet Paul immediately qualifies the typology with contrast: "the gift is not like the trespass" (v. 15). The Adam-Christ parallel operates through both correspondence (federal headship, one act affecting many) and escalation-through-contrast (death vs. life, condemnation vs. justification, disobedience vs. obedience). This is the locus classicus for the doctrine of the two Adams.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology + Contrast

Linked Mentions 3

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