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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 → Psalm 8:6

Quotation

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

Psalm 8:6BSB

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

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square8:48

Significance

Psalm 8 celebrates humanity's exalted status in creation - crowned with glory and given dominion over creation. Paul applies this christologically: Jesus is the true human who fulfills humanity's creation mandate. Through resurrection, Christ receives universal dominion, subjecting all enemies including death. This hermeneutical move reveals Paul's Adam-Christ typology: Adam failed to exercise dominion, but Christ as the "last Adam" (15:45) succeeds. The original Psalm refers to "son of man" - Paul sees this fulfilled in Jesus. By connecting Psalm 8 to resurrection, Paul shows that Christ's dominion isn't merely spiritual but cosmic, requiring bodily resurrection to consummate. This grounds Christian hope: Christ's resurrection guarantees ours, since He exercises Psalm 8's dominion on behalf of redeemed humanity.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Typology (Providential Type, Backward-Looking) + Redemptive-Historical Progression

▸ What Is Man

Linked Mentions 8

Intertextuality Pairs 1

1 Corinthians 15:25-27 to Daniel 7:14

Trajectory Tables 6

Anchor Texts 1

Psalm 8 — What Is Man

1 Corinthians 15:27 → Psalm 8:6

Significance

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