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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 9:27-29 → Isaiah 10:22

Quotation

Later text

Romans 9:27BSB

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

Earlier text

Isaiah 10:22BSB

Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

+ 2 more earlier texts

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.’

Earlier text

Isaiah 1:9BSB

Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square11:08

Significance

Paul merges Isaiah and Hosea to show both judgment (only remnant saved) and hope (remnant will be saved). The insertion of Hosea 1:10 into Isaiah 10:22 creates theological tension: vast number yet only remnant, pointing to future salvation.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 2