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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 21:24-26 → Isaiah 60:3, 5, 11

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 21:24-26BSB

By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory. Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there. And into the city will be brought the glory and honor of the nations.

Earlier text

Isaiah 60:3, 5, 11BSB

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Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:26

Significance

Isaiah 60 describes Zion's future glory: "Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn" (v. 3); "the wealth on the seas will be brought to you, to you the riches of the nations will come" (v. 5); "Your gates will always stand open, they will never be shut, day or night, so that people may bring you the wealth of the nations" (v. 11). Revelation 21:24-26 fulfills each element: "By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory" (v. 24); "Its gates will never be shut" (v. 25); "the glory and honor of the nations" will be brought in (v. 26). The verbal parallels are extensive and systematic. The escalation is from the post-exilic restoration of earthly Jerusalem to the eternal New Jerusalem, where Gentile inclusion reaches its consummation.

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

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Gentile Inclusion (Light to the Nations) Trajectory Table