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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 Timothy 3:11 → Psalms 34:17-19

Allusion

Later text

2 Timothy 3:11BSB

my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

Earlier text

Psalms 34:17-19BSB

The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears; He delivers them from all their troubles. The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square14:19

Significance

Paul's testimony that "the Lord rescued me from them all" (ek pantōn me errysato ho kyrios) in 2 Timothy 3:11 echoes the language of Psalm 34:17-19, where the psalmist declares that "the LORD hears the righteous" and "delivers them from all their troubles" (mikkol-tsarōtam hitsilam). The verbal parallel between Paul's "rescued from all" and the psalm's "delivers from all" is striking. Psalm 34 was composed by David when he escaped from Abimelech (Achish), making it a psalm of personal deliverance that became paradigmatic for all righteous sufferers. Paul applies this pattern analogically to his own apostolic experience of persecution at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra (Acts 13-14), affirming that the same God who delivered David continues to deliver his servants through affliction.

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

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2 Timothy 3:11 → Psalms 34:17-19

Significance

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