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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

Titus 2:14 → Deuteronomy 7:6

Allusion

Later text

Titus 2:14BSB

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 7:6BSB

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

Significance

Paul's phrase laon periousion ("a people for his own possession") in Titus 2:14 directly echoes the LXX of Deuteronomy 7:6, where Israel is called laon periousion — God's "treasured possession" (Hebrew: am segullah). This distinctive term appears in the Pentateuch at Exodus 19:5 and Deuteronomy 14:2; 26:18, always designating Israel's unique covenant status. Paul applies this exclusive covenant designation to the church — the community Christ has redeemed and purified. The allusion is theologically potent: the same language that defined Israel's election at Sinai now defines the new covenant people formed by Christ's atoning death. This traces the longitudinal theme of God's treasured people from Sinai through the prophets to the church.

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

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Titus 2:14 → Deuteronomy 7:6

Significance

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