Later text
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.
Intertextuality Pair
Allusion
Later text
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
Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:45 commands, "Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD." Revelation 18:4 echoes this nearly verbatim: "Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues." The verbal correspondence is unmistakable — both use the imperative "come out" (exelthate / tse'u) addressed to "my people" (laos mou / ammi) in the context of Babylon's imminent destruction. Jeremiah called the exiles to physically leave Babylon before its fall; John calls the church to spiritual separation from the world-system before eschatological judgment. This allusion participates in the exodus-from-Babylon motif that runs through Isaiah 48:20, Jeremiah 50:8, and 51:6, 45, showing that the new exodus is also an exodus from Babylon.