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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 21:2 → Isaiah 52:1b

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 21:2BSB

I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Earlier text

Isaiah 52:1bBSB

Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.

Significance

Isaiah 52:1 proclaims, "Awake, awake, Zion, clothe yourself with strength! Put on your garments of splendor, Jerusalem, the holy city (ir haqqodesh)." Revelation 21:2 describes John seeing "the holy city, the new Jerusalem" (tēn polin tēn hagian Ierousalēm kainēn) descending from heaven. The designation "the holy city" connects these texts directly. Isaiah's call for Jerusalem to clothe herself in splendor is fulfilled in the New Jerusalem that descends "prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." Isaiah's context is the return from exile and the purification of Zion; Revelation's context is the consummation of all things. The escalation is from the restoration of earthly Jerusalem (which Isaiah also says will never again be entered by the uncircumcised — v. 1) to the descent of the heavenly Jerusalem where "nothing unclean will ever enter" (Rev 21:27).

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