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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 4:9-10 → Genesis 22:2

Allusion

Later text

1 John 4:9-10BSB

This is how God's love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Earlier text

Genesis 22:2BSB

"Take your son," God said, "your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you."

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Earlier text

Genesis 22:12BSB

"Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him," said the angel, "for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me."

Significance

John's statement that "God sent His one and only Son into the world so that we might live through Him" and "sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice" echoes the Aqedah: "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love" (Gen 22:2). The monogenes/yachid connection is reinforced by Hebrews 11:17, which uses μονογενῆ explicitly for Isaac. God does what Abraham was willing to do — actually gives His only Son as a sacrifice. Abraham's hand was stayed; God's was not. The ram provided as substitute (Gen 22:13-14) anticipates the Son sent as propitiation. The Isaac-Christ typology is among the most well-established in biblical theology.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology