Intertextuality Pair

Romans 8:32 → Genesis 22:16

Allusion

Later text

Romans 8:32BSB

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

Earlier text

Genesis 22:16BSB

saying, "By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
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Significance

Paul echoes the Akedah (binding of Isaac): Romans 8:32's "did not spare" (οὐκ ἐφείσατο) is a resonant did-not-spare echo of LXX Genesis 22:16 (οὐκ ἐφείσω, "you did not spare") — suggestive rather than citation-grade, since the {spare, son} collocation recurs elsewhere in the Greek Scriptures, so the connection rests on the typology Hebrews 11:17-19 seals first-order, not on the verbal echo alone. The escalation runs in the manner: the essential correspondence — the father gives the beloved only son; a substitute secures life — is preserved and heightened at both poles, while the manner inverts. Isaac was spared and a ram died in his place; God did not spare His own Son, doing what He stopped Abraham from doing, and the Son Himself is the provided Lamb. Paul's logic is a fortiori ("He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?") — as with Abraham, and beyond, never "unlike Abraham."

Found via
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type
Allusion
Connection Method(s)
Typology (escalation-in-manner)

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