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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

1 Corinthians 14:25 → Isaiah 45:14

Allusion

Later text

1 Corinthians 14:25BSB

and the secrets of his heart will be made known. So he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is truly among you!”

Earlier text

Isaiah 45:14BSB

This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you; they will come over in chains and bow down to you. They will confess to you: ‘God is indeed with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.’”

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square14:11

Significance

Paul alludes to Isaiah 45:14 in 1 Corinthians 14:25, where the outsider who enters the prophesying assembly falls down and declares "God is truly among you" (ontōs ho theos en hymin estin). Isaiah 45:14 prophesied that the nations would come to Israel confessing "surely God is among you" (ak beka 'el), acknowledging the reality of Israel's God. Paul sees this prophetic vision partially fulfilled when the prophetic word in the gathered church convicts an unbeliever, exposing the secrets of the heart and producing worship. The verbal parallel is unmistakable: both texts use the declaration formula about God's presence among His people. This connects to the broader Isaianic vision of Gentile inclusion (Isa 2:2-4; 49:6; 60:3) and demonstrates that Paul understood the church's gathered worship as a fulfillment of OT prophetic expectations about the nations streaming to Zion. The eschatological "already" is experienced in the worshiping assembly while the "not yet" awaits the consummation.

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