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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 8:20 → Genesis 3:17

Allusion

Later text

Romans 8:20BSB

For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

Earlier text

Genesis 3:17BSB

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.

Significance

The creation's subjection to futility refers to the Genesis curse. Paul sees creation's liberation tied to the revelation of the sons of God.

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

Linked Mentions 4

Trajectory Tables 4