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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 13:10 → Jeremiah 15:2

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 13:10BSB

“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.

Earlier text

Jeremiah 15:2BSB

If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:42

Significance

The oracle "If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed" closely echoes Jeremiah 15:2, where YHWH announces the irrevocable sentence upon Jerusalem: each person will meet the fate assigned to them — death, sword, famine, or captivity. In Jeremiah, this declared God's sovereign control over judgment against His rebellious people. John appropriates this formula in Revelation 13:10 with a dual function: it warns the persecutors that their violence will rebound on them (lex talionis), and it calls the saints to accept their appointed suffering with "perseverance and faith." The Jeremianic context of inevitable divine judgment transforms what might seem like passive resignation into confident trust — the same sovereign God who assigned judgment to Jerusalem will assign judgment to the beast's followers. The saints' patience is grounded in the certainty of divine retribution.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme + Analogy