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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 18:4 → Isaiah 52:11

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 18:4BSB

Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.

Earlier text

Isaiah 52:11BSB

Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.

Significance

Isaiah 52:11 commands the exiles, "Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Come out from it and be pure, you who carry the articles of YHWH's house." The call in Revelation 18:4 — "Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues" — fuses Jeremiah's Babylon-exodus language with Isaiah's purity language. The concern with not "touching the unclean" (Isaiah) becomes not "sharing in her sins" (Revelation). Isaiah's context is the second exodus from Babylonian exile, and John sees the eschatological fulfillment of this departure. Paul also quotes this text in 2 Corinthians 6:17, showing a consistent apostolic reading of Isaiah 52:11 as a call to spiritual separation. John layers both Jeremiah 51:45 and Isaiah 52:11 to create a composite call to exodus.

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

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New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern) Trajectory Table