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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Hebrews 11:23-26 → Exodus 2

Allusion

Later text

Hebrews 11:23-26BSB

By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict. By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin. He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.

Earlier text

Exodus 2BSB

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Significance

Hebrews 11:23-26 retells the Exodus 2 narrative through the lens of faith: Moses' parents "were not afraid of the king's edict" (11:23; cf. Exod 2:2-3), and Moses himself "refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin" (11:24-25). Most strikingly, Hebrews interprets Moses' motivation: "He regarded the reproach of Christ (ton oneidismon tou Christou) as greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward" (11:26). This remarkable statement reads Moses' choice typologically — Moses endured "the reproach of Christ" proleptically, identifying with the suffering Messiah's people before the Messiah appeared. The pattern is clear: Moses' rejection of Egypt's wealth in favor of solidarity with God's afflicted people prefigures the pattern of all who follow Christ in suffering (cf. 13:13, "bearing the reproach he endured"). The escalation moves from Moses' faith under the old covenant to Christ's own example of endurance (12:2), with Moses serving as the paradigmatic type of costly faith.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy + Typology (Mosaic Type, Forward-Looking)