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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 9:10-13 → Genesis 25:23

Quotation

Later text

Romans 9:10BSB

Not only that, but Rebecca's children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

Earlier text

Genesis 25:23BSB

and He declared to her: "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Malachi 1:2BSB

"I have loved you," says the LORD. But you ask, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD. "Yet Jacob I have loved,

Significance

Paul uses these texts to demonstrate God's sovereign election before birth, independent of works. The Malachi quotation applies to nations (Israel and Edom), showing corporate election patterns.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Analogy (Paul's citation-act — see TT 080) + Promise-Fulfillment + Redemptive-Historical Progression

Linked Mentions 4

Trajectory Tables 4