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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 → Ezekiel 37:23

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

Ezekiel 37:23BSB

They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square7:27

Significance

Paul's description of Christ's purpose — to "purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works" (katharisē heautō laon periousion) — draws on Ezekiel 37:23, where God promises to "cleanse" (katharō in LXX) his reunited people so that "they will be my people, and I will be their God." The TSK connects Titus 2:14 to Ezekiel 36:25, which is part of the same prophetic complex. The new covenant purification promised through Ezekiel — cleansing from idols and uncleanness — finds fulfillment in Christ's self-sacrifice. Paul's "purify for himself a people" mirrors Ezekiel's vision of God cleansing Israel as his covenant people. The allusion places the church within the trajectory of restored-Israel prophecy, identifying believers as the purified people of the new covenant.

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

▸ Ezek 36-37 — A New Heart and Dry Bones

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Ezekiel 36-37 — A New Heart and Dry Bones

Titus 2:14 → Ezekiel 37:23

Significance

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