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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

1 John 2:25 → Daniel 12:2

Echo

Later text

1 John 2:25BSB

And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

Earlier text

Daniel 12:2BSB

And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

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Significance

John identifies "the promise He Himself made to us" as "eternal life" (ζωὴ αἰώνιος). Daniel 12:2 provides the OT's clearest articulation of this concept: "many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life (חַיֵּי עוֹלָם / LXX: ζωὴν αἰώνιον)." The LXX's ζωὴν αἰώνιον is the exact phrase John uses. Daniel's resurrection promise, given in the context of eschatological tribulation and vindication of the righteous, is the foundational OT text behind the NT's pervasive "eternal life" language. John presents eternal life not merely as future resurrection but as a present possession through knowing the Son (cf. John 17:3).

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

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Raising the Dead (Lazarus and the Life-Giver) Trajectory Table