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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 19:13 → Isaiah 63:1-3

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 19:13BSB

He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.

Earlier text

Isaiah 63:1-3BSB

Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.” Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress? “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square12:41

Significance

Isaiah 63:1-3 presents the divine warrior marching from Edom/Bozrah with garments "red" and "stained" from treading the winepress of judgment alone: "I have trodden the winepress alone ... their lifeblood spattered my garments, and I stained all my clothing." Revelation 19:13 depicts Christ "dressed in a robe dipped in blood" as He rides forth to judge and make war. The correspondence is direct: blood-stained garments, winepress imagery (Rev 19:15b), and solitary divine combat. Isaiah's warrior acts alone because no one among the peoples could help; Revelation's warrior needs no help because He is the omnipotent Word of God. The escalation from Isaiah's localized Edom judgment to Revelation's universal judgment against "the nations" (19:15) shows the cosmic scope of the fulfillment. This is one of the OT's most prominent divine-warrior texts, and John reads it as fulfilled in Christ's parousia.

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

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Divine Warrior (God Who Fights) Trajectory Table