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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

2 Corinthians 6:17 → Isaiah 52:11

Allusion

Later text

2 Corinthians 6:17BSB

“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

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.

Significance

Paul alludes to Isaiah 52:11 in 2 Corinthians 6:17a — "come out from among them and be separate... Touch no unclean thing" (exelthate ek mesou autōn kai aphoristhēte... kai akathartou mē haptesthe). Isaiah's original command addressed the Levitical priests carrying the temple vessels during the return from Babylonian exile: they must maintain ritual purity because they bear the LORD's sacred objects. Paul applies this new-exodus language to the church's separation from idolatry and unbelief. The command to "Touch no unclean thing" (akathartou) draws on the priestly purity language of Leviticus while functioning in Isaiah's context as a call to leave Babylon. Paul's application transfers the principle from geographic/ritual separation to moral/spiritual holiness: the church as God's temple (v. 16) must maintain the same purity as the priests who bore the temple vessels. This reflects the new covenant reality that all believers are a "kingdom of priests" (Exod 19:6; 1 Pet 2:9).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy + Redemptive-Historical Progression

Hermeneutical Notes

NT Use Pattern: Assimilated — Second element of the five-text catena at 2 Corinthians 6:16-18 — the call to come out from among them.

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 2