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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

Revelation 12:14 → Exodus 19:4

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 12:14BSB

But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

Earlier text

Exodus 19:4BSB

'You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:19

Significance

The woman receiving "two wings of a great eagle" to fly to safety in the wilderness directly echoes Exodus 19:4, where YHWH describes His rescue of Israel from Egypt: "I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself." The eagle's wings symbolize God's powerful, protective deliverance of His people from an oppressive enemy. Deuteronomy 32:11-12 develops the same image: "like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft." John's use of this Exodus imagery confirms the New Exodus framework: the church's deliverance from the dragon recapitulates Israel's deliverance from Pharaoh. The wilderness destination (Rev 12:14) parallels Israel's wilderness journey, and the "time, times, and half a time" echoes Daniel 7:25, connecting the Exodus and Danielic traditions in a single image of divine protection during the period of satanic persecution.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology (Providential Type, Backward-Looking) + Longitudinal Theme

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern) Trajectory Table