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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 19:7-9 → Psalms 45:6-7

Echo

Later text

Revelation 19:7-9BSB

Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready. She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure." For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints. Then the angel told me to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”

Earlier text

Psalms 45:6-7BSB

Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.

Significance

"For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready... She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure" (Rev 19:7-8) consummates the royal-wedding scene that Psalm 45 — the Psalter's only wedding psalm — had set in motion: a divine King (Ps 45:6, "Your throne, O God"), a summons to "rejoice and be glad," and a bride led to the king "All glorious is the princess in her chamber; her gown is embroidered with gold... In colorful garments... with joy and gladness" (Ps 45:13-15). The connection is a thematic echo within the Marriage and Bride longitudinal theme, not a quotation: Psalm 45 supplies the royal-bridegroom-and-adorned-bride template, and the divine-vocative address of v. 6 identifies the King as one who is more than human — fulfilled in the Lamb who is worshiped as God (Rev 19:4-6, 10). The escalation is from one Davidic wedding to the eschatological marriage of the slain-and-risen Lamb, His bride now arrayed not in gold of Ophir but in "the righteous acts of the saints" granted to her. The telos is mutual gladness made final: the King anointed "with the oil of joy" (Ps 45:7) is the Bridegroom-Lamb at whose marriage the redeemed are summoned to "rejoice and be glad," so that the everlasting wedding shows Christ not merely as foretold King but as the desirable Husband whose joy over His bride is her endless satisfaction.

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

▸ Your Throne O God

Linked Mentions 3

Trajectory Tables 2

Anchor Texts 1

Psalm 45:6-7 — Your Throne, O God

Revelation 19:7-9 → Psalms 45:6-7

Significance

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