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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 18:21 → Jeremiah 51:63

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 18:21BSB

Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.

Earlier text

Jeremiah 51:63BSB

When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:49

Significance

Jeremiah 51:63-64 records the prophetic sign-act: Seraiah was to tie a stone to the scroll of Babylon's doom and cast it into the Euphrates, saying, "In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again" (51:64). Revelation 18:21 depicts a mighty angel picking up "a stone the size of a great millstone" and casting it into the sea with the declaration, "With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again." The escalation is evident: Jeremiah's small stone becomes a great millstone; the Euphrates becomes the sea; and the symbolic act becomes an angelic enactment of final judgment. The finality language — "never to be seen again" — echoes Jeremiah's "never rise again." This is one of the most direct OT allusions in Revelation 18, with the prophetic sign-act finding its ultimate fulfillment.

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

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