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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 8:36 → Psalm 44:22

Quotation

Later text

Romans 8:36BSB

As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Earlier text

Psalm 44:22BSB

Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square9:20

Significance

Paul applies Israel's suffering for God to the church's experience. The psalm context is communal lament over undeserved suffering; Paul sees this pattern fulfilled in Christian suffering.

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