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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
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Intertextuality Pair

1 Corinthians 15:54-55 → Isaiah 25:8

Quotation

Later text

1 Corinthians 15:54-55BSB

When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”

Earlier text

Isaiah 25:8BSB

He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Hosea 13:14BSB

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square9:39

Significance

Paul combines Isaiah 25:8 (God swallowing up death) with Hosea 13:14 (taunting death's defeat) to celebrate resurrection victory. Isaiah 25 describes the messianic banquet when God eliminates death and wipes away tears - Paul sees this fulfilled in Christ's resurrection and consummated at the general resurrection. Hosea 13:14 originally expressed God's judgment on Israel but contained hope of redemption from death. Paul transforms Hosea's questions into triumphant taunts: death no longer has power over believers. This hermeneutical move shows Paul reading OT eschatological hopes christologically: what Isaiah and Hosea anticipated finds fulfillment in Christ's resurrection. The composite quotation also demonstrates Paul's synthetic reading of Scripture, weaving multiple texts into unified testimony to resurrection hope.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

Hermeneutical Notes

NT Use Pattern: Assimilated — Composite: Isaiah 25:8 + Hosea 13:14. Paul fuses two death-defeat texts for the resurrection climax — "Death has been swallowed up in victory… Where, O Death, is your sting?"

Linked Mentions 5

Trajectory Tables 5