NT Text: 2 Corinthians 6:16-18
OT Source(s):
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Typology
Significance: 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.