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Intertextuality Pair
Quotation
Later text
What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
Earlier text
And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you. I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
Earlier text
My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
Earlier text
I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
Earlier text
Isaiah 52:11BSB
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
Paul creates a testimonia-style composite weaving together five OT texts into unified temple ecclesiology. The church has become God's dwelling place (replacing physical temple), requiring holiness. Leviticus 26 and Ezekiel 37's promises of God dwelling among his people find fulfillment in the Spirit-indwelt church. Isaiah 52's call for exiles to leave Babylon is reapplied to separation from idolatry. 2 Samuel 7's Davidic covenant (father-son relationship) is universalized to all believers as God's sons and daughters. This composite technique demonstrates early Christian interpretive method - grouping related OT passages to establish theological points about the church's identity as new covenant temple-community.
NT Use Pattern: Assimilated — Lead text of Paul's five-text catena (Lev 26:11-12 + Isa 52:11 + Ezek 20:34 + Isa 43:6 + 2 Sam 7:14) on God's dwelling-with-his-people, assembled to motivate the church's separation from idolatry.