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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 9:9 → Psalms 112:9

Quotation

Later text

2 Corinthians 9:9BSB

As it is written: “He has scattered abroad His gifts to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.”

Earlier text

Psalms 112:9BSB

He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Proverbs 22:8BSB

He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Earlier text

Isaiah 55:10BSB

For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square9:07

Significance

Paul weaves three OT texts to establish generous giving as covenant continuity. Psalm 112's righteous person who "scatters gifts to the poor" with "righteousness enduring forever" becomes the model believer. Proverbs 22:8 LXX (not in MT) provides the "cheerful giver" principle. Isaiah 55's divine provision metaphor (seed to sower, bread for food) assures that God multiplies givers' resources. The theological logic: God's provision creates abundance not for hoarding but for sharing, maintaining church equality and unity. The collection symbolizes Gentile-Jewish unity while demonstrating covenant ethics - what Israel was exhorted to do, the new covenant community now fulfills, recognizing all provision as God's gift enabling generosity.

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

Hermeneutical Notes

NT Use Pattern: Proverbial — He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever. Paul cites a wisdom-psalm proverb to characterize generous giving.