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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
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Intertextuality Pair

1 Corinthians 5:13 → Deuteronomy 17:7

Quotation

Later text

1 Corinthians 5:13BSB

God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 17:7BSB

The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square9:25

Significance

"Purge the evil from among you" is Deuteronomy's repeated formula for maintaining covenant holiness through expulsion of flagrant sinners. Paul applies Israel's covenant law to the church, treating the Christian community as the new covenant people obligated to maintain holiness. This hermeneutical move reveals Paul's ecclesiology: the church stands in continuity with Israel as God's holy people, requiring discipline to preserve purity. The legal context in Deuteronomy involves capital punishment for covenant violations; Paul adapts this to excommunication - spiritual death through removal from the community. This shows how OT law informs church discipline: the principle of purging evil remains, but the application transforms in light of the new covenant.

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

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