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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 10:37-38 → Isaiah 26:20

Quotation

Later text

Hebrews 10:37-38BSB

For, “In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay. But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”

Earlier text

Isaiah 26:20BSB

Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Habakkuk 2:3-4BSB

For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay. Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square6:56

Significance

Conflates two OT texts with common "coming" theme. Orients endurance to Christ's second coming. "Little while" = present era of tension. Adds definite article to make "the Coming One" messianic title. Inverts last two clauses so "my righteous one" is subject of both—lives by faith or shrinks back. Introduces chapter 11 exempla on faith. Paul uses Hab. 2:4 for justification; Hebrews uses it for perseverance. The prophetic promise of vindication ("the coming one will come") sustains believers through present trials—faith is the endurance mechanism that prevents shrinking back into judgment.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Habakkuk 2:4 — The Righteous Shall Live by Faith