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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 21:5 → Isaiah 43:19

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 21:5BSB

And the One seated on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." Then He said, "Write this down, for these words are faithful and true."

Earlier text

Isaiah 43:19BSB

Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square7:01

Significance

Isaiah 43:19 announces, "Behold, I am about to do something new (hinneni oseh hadashah); even now it is coming. Do you not see it?" Revelation 21:5 declares from the throne, "Behold, I make all things new" (Idou kaina poiō panta). Both texts use the divine "Behold/See" (hinneh / idou) followed by the creation of "new" (hadash / kainos) realities. In Isaiah, the "new thing" is the second exodus from Babylonian exile — a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. In Revelation, the "new thing" is the entire cosmos renewed. The escalation is from national restoration to cosmic re-creation. The use of poiō (present tense: "I am making") suggests ongoing creative activity that has already begun in Christ and reaches consummation in the new creation. Isaiah's new exodus was a foretaste; the new heaven and earth is the substance.

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

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