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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 9:25-26 → Hosea 2:23

Quotation

Later text

Romans 9:25BSB

As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”

Earlier text

Hosea 2:23BSB

And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Hosea 1:10BSB

Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square8:48

Significance

Paul applies Hosea's prophecy about Israel's restoration after judgment to the calling of Gentiles. The pattern is: rejection → calling → acceptance. Controversial application of Israel-specific prophecy to Gentiles.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Analogy + Longitudinal Theme — Paul applies Hosea's covenant-reversal pattern analogically to Gentile inclusion, not as a direct prediction-fulfillment of Hosea (so TT 029 Church as Israel, the owning table)

Hermeneutical Notes

NT Use Pattern: Assimilated — Composite: Hosea 2:23 + Hosea 1:10. Paul fuses two Hosea texts about the "not my people / my people" reversal to ground Gentile inclusion in God's covenant people.

Linked Mentions 4

Trajectory Tables 4