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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

Hebrews 1:6 → Deuteronomy 32:43

Quotation

Later text

Hebrews 1:6BSB

And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 32:43 LXXBSB

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Earlier text

Psalms 97:7 LXXBSB

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Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square10:20

Significance

Commands angelic worship of the Son, demonstrating his superiority. Context in Deuteronomy 32 involves judgment on enemies and vindication of God's people, applied eschatologically to Christ's second coming ("when he brings the firstborn into the world"). The LXX reading preserves this angelic worship motif, showing that what angels must do for the Son distinguishes him categorically from them.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme + Redemptive-Historical Progression

▸ Rejoice O Nations

Hermeneutical Notes

NT Use Pattern: Alternate Textual — The clause "let all the angels of God worship him" appears in the LXX (and confirmed at Qumran) but is absent from the MT. Hebrews's argument for angelic worship of the Son requires this alternate text-form.

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

Divine Identity (Deity of Christ) Trajectory Table

Anchor Texts 1

Deuteronomy 32:43 — Rejoice, O Nations, with His People

Hebrews 1:6 → Deuteronomy 32:43

Significance

Related Anchor-Text Networks

Hermeneutical Notes