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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

Galatians 2:6 → Leviticus 19:15

Echo

Later text

Galatians 2:6BSB

But as for the highly esteemed—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—those leaders added nothing to me.

Earlier text

Leviticus 19:15BSB

You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

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Earlier text

Deuteronomy 10:17BSB

For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.

Significance

The phrase is a "loan translation" of the Hebrew expression for showing partiality (literally "lifting the face"). In Leviticus 19:15, the prohibition applies to human judges; in Deuteronomy 10:17, it establishes divine impartiality as foundational theology. Paul's use has crucial implications for the Galatians controversy: the question is not merely procedural but theological. God's consistent character as impartial judge means any gospel creating new distinctions based on ethnic identity (Jew vs. Gentile through circumcision and law-observance) contradicts God's fundamental character revealed in Torah. The Judaizers' position, which gives special status to Jewish Christians and requires Gentiles to become Jews, violates the very principle of divine impartiality established in the law they claim to uphold.

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