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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 15:25-27 → Daniel 7:14

Allusion

Later text

1 Corinthians 15:25-27BSB

For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him.

Earlier text

Daniel 7:14BSB

And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Psalm 110:1BSB

A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord: "Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet."

Earlier text

Psalm 8:6BSB

You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

Significance

Paul's resurrection chapter describes Christ's reign in language woven from three texts: "He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet" (echoing Ps 110:1), and "God has put everything under His feet" (quoting Ps 8:6), with the result that all "dominion, authority, and power" is destroyed and the kingdom handed to the Father (vv.24-27). Underlying this triple fusion is the Danielic vision: the everlasting dominion given to the Son of Man (Dan 7:14) over every nation and the destruction of the hostile beastly kingdoms (Dan 7:11-12, 26). Paul's explicit Vorlage is Psalms 110 and 8 — hence the vault files 1 Cor 15:27 → Ps 8:6 — but the framework of a representative Man receiving universal dominion and abolishing all rival rule is Daniel 7, the apocalyptic capstone of the Adamic-dominion theme that Psalm 8 sings. The connection is promise-fulfillment joined to a longitudinal theme: the dominion forfeited by Adam (Ps 8 / Gen 1), promised to David's Son (Ps 110), and granted to the Son of Man (Dan 7) is realized in the risen Christ, whose reign culminates in the abolition of death itself (v.26). The telos is the all-conquering, self-giving King — the One whose dominion is so complete that even death is destroyed, and who then subjects all to the Father "so that God may be all in all" (v.28), that we might rejoice in a Christ whose triumph is wholly for the glory of God and the life of His people.

Found via: Beale & Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Baker, 2007); Beale, A New Testament Biblical Theology (Baker, 2011)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme

▸ The Son of Man Receiving Dominion

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

Conquest of Canaan Trajectory Table

Anchor Texts 1

Daniel 7:13-14 — The Son of Man Receiving Dominion

1 Corinthians 15:25-27 → Daniel 7:14

Significance

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