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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 15:52 → Isaiah 27:13

Echo

Later text

1 Corinthians 15:52BSB

in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Earlier text

Isaiah 27:13BSB

And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square11:44

Significance

Paul's reference to "the last trumpet" (en tē eschatē salpingi) in 1 Corinthians 15:52 echoes Isaiah 27:13, where "a great trumpet" (shofar gadol) signals the eschatological ingathering of Israel's scattered exiles from Assyria and Egypt to worship the LORD in Jerusalem. Paul transforms this prophetic expectation: the great trumpet no longer gathers exiles to the earthly Zion but raises the dead and transforms the living at Christ's return. The trumpet motif runs through Israel's liturgical and military history — from Sinai's theophanic trumpet (Exod 19:16), through the silver trumpets of Numbers 10, to the Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah, Lev 23:24), to the eschatological trumpets of the prophets (Joel 2:1; Zech 9:14). Paul's "last trumpet" represents the climactic fulfillment of this entire trajectory. The qualifier "last" (eschatē) indicates that this trumpet consummates what previous trumpets anticipated: the final ingathering of God's people, now including resurrection and glorification.

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

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Feast of Trumpets (The Final Call) Trajectory Table