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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

Ephesians 1:22 → Genesis 1:28

Echo

Later text

Ephesians 1:22BSB

And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,

Earlier text

Genesis 1:28BSB

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth."

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Psalm 8:6BSB

You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

Significance

In the exaltation catena celebrating the Father's power "exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand," Paul declares "God put everything under His feet" — alluding to Psalm 8:6, which itself re-voices the dominion / subdue clause of Genesis 1:28. The Adamic mandate to have all things in subjection is applied to the risen and enthroned Christ, the Last Adam, who is then made "head over everything for the church." The dominion Adam was given and lost is now exercised by Christ on behalf of his body. This belongs to the Pauline exaltation catena (with 1 Cor 15:27 and Phil 3:21) that repeatedly applies the Adamic dominion via Ps 8 to the exalted Lord. Per the ATN §4 this is an allusion to Ps 8:6 LXX (Gen 1:28 mediated through Ps 8) functioning as typological fulfillment within the exaltation catena — the creation commission realized in the enthroned Christ for the sake of the church.

Found via: Anchor-Text Network — Genesis 1:28 (Beale, The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New Testament; Köstenberger & O'Brien, Salvation to the Ends of the Earth)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Typology

▸ The Adamic Commission

Linked Mentions 2

Intertextuality Pairs 1

Ephesians 1:20-22 to Daniel 7:14

Anchor Texts 1

Genesis 1:28 — The Adamic Commission

Ephesians 1:22 → Genesis 1:28

Significance

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