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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 4:17 → Psalms 22:27-28

Allusion

Later text

2 Timothy 4:17BSB

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

Earlier text

Psalms 22:27-28BSB

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him. For dominion belongs to the LORD and He rules over the nations.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square7:19

Significance

Paul's statement that the Lord strengthened him "so that all the Gentiles might hear" (hina di' emou to kērygma plērophorēthē kai akousōsin panta ta ethnē) echoes Psalm 22:27-28, where the psalmist's deliverance leads to a universalizing climax: "all the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him, for dominion belongs to the LORD." Paul sees his apostolic mission to the Gentiles as participating in the fulfillment of this psalm's vision. The structural movement of Psalm 22 — from individual suffering to universal proclamation — maps onto Paul's experience: rescued from death (the lion's mouth), he proclaims the gospel to all nations. The psalm's prophetic horizon of worldwide worship finds partial fulfillment in the Pauline Gentile mission.

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

▸ Psalm 22 — My God My God Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me

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Anchor Texts 1

Psalm 22 — My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me

2 Timothy 4:17 → Psalms 22:27-28

Significance

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