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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 15:27 → Genesis 1:28

Allusion

Later text

1 Corinthians 15:27BSB

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

Genesis 1:28BSB

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth."

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Psalm 8:6BSB

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

Significance

Paul reads the Adamic commission Christologically through Psalm 8. In the resurrection argument he names Christ the Last Adam (1 Cor 15:45) and grounds his reign in a composite citation: "He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet" (Ps 110:1) fused with "God has put everything under His feet" (Ps 8:6, which itself re-articulates Gen 1:28's dominion / subdue clause). The Adamic mandate to rule the earth is thus exercised by the risen Christ in inaugurated form — he is now subduing every enemy, the last being death, until the consummation when the Son delivers the kingdom to the Father. What the first Adam forfeited and no Adam-figure could secure, the Last Adam achieves; his dominion is the creation commission fulfilled and being brought to completion. Per the ATN §4 this is a composite citation (Ps 110:1 + Ps 8:6, Gen 1:28 mediated through Ps 8) functioning as typological fulfillment — the Last Adam's inaugurated dominion.

Found via: Anchor-Text Network — Genesis 1:28 (Beale, The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New Testament; Köstenberger & O'Brien, Salvation to the Ends of the Earth)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology

▸ The Adamic Commission

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Genesis 1:28 — The Adamic Commission

1 Corinthians 15:27 → Genesis 1:28

Significance

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