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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 6:16 → Psalm 125:5

Allusion

Later text

Galatians 6:16BSB

Peace and mercy to all who walk by this rule, even to the Israel of God.

Earlier text

Psalm 125:5BSB

But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

128:6BSB

that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!

Earlier text

Isaiah 54:10BSB

Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Earlier text

Isaiah 66:12-13BSB

For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees. As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:56

Significance

The expression "peace on Israel" occurs in Psalms 125:5; 128:6, but Paul may have been influenced by eschatological Isaiah passages, especially 54:10 LXX. Since Paul earlier (4:27) applied Isaiah 54:1 to Gentile believers in Galatia, and since the letter focuses on God's people's unity, it's difficult to believe he'd introduce ethnic distinction at the document's end. By means of a final OT allusion, Paul assures his readers that all who belong to the new order, whether Jew or Gentile, are the true seed of Abraham and thus constitute the eschatological Israel of God. The phrase "Israel of God" isn't a reference to ethnic Israel or Jewish Christians specifically, but to all who walk by the new creation's "rule" (kanōn, 6:15). This includes both Jewish and Gentile believers incorporated into the one people of God through faith in Christ. The blessing of peace and mercy, drawn from OT benedictions over Israel, is now pronounced upon the renewed people of God—the church composed of all who are Abraham's seed through faith.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme

Hermeneutical Notes

NT Use Pattern: Symbolic — "Israel of God" → the church. Paul transfers the OT covenant designation symbolically to those who walk by the cross-rule, the new-creation people, regardless of ethnic Israelite descent.

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Israel (Corporate New-Adam) Trajectory Table