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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 9:6-9 → Genesis 21:12

Quotation

Later text

Romans 9:6BSB

It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

Earlier text

Genesis 21:12BSB

But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Genesis 18:10BSB

Then the LORD said, "I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.

Significance

Paul establishes the principle of election within Israel itself. God's promise to Abraham was specifically through Isaac, not Ishmael, demonstrating that physical descent alone does not guarantee promise fulfillment.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Contrast (secondary: Redemptive-Historical Progression)

Linked Mentions 6

Trajectory Tables 6