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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 15:3b → Deuteronomy 32:4

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 15:3bBSB

and they sang the song of God's servant Moses and of the Lamb: "Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 32:4BSB

He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

Significance

The Song of the Lamb declares "Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations," echoing the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32:4: "He is the Rock, His works are perfect, and all His ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is He." The verbal parallel between "just are Your ways" is unmistakable. In Deuteronomy, Moses sings this as a witness-song against Israel's future unfaithfulness; in Revelation, the redeemed sing it as a victory celebration of God's faithfulness vindicated through final judgment. The pairing of "song of Moses" with "song of the Lamb" in 15:3 makes both Exodus 15 and Deuteronomy 32 simultaneously active as source texts, showing that the entire Mosaic witness finds its culmination in the Lamb's triumph.

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