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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 4:8 → Isaiah 6:3

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 4:8BSB

And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

Earlier text

Isaiah 6:3BSB

And they were calling out to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory."

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square10:41

Significance

The Trisagion ("Holy, holy, holy") of the four living creatures in Revelation 4:8 directly echoes the seraphim's antiphonal cry in Isaiah 6:3. The threefold "holy" (qadosh, qadosh, qadosh) is the only attribute of God repeated three times in succession in Scripture, underscoring its supreme importance. John adapts Isaiah's vision: the seraphim become four living creatures (drawing also on Ezekiel's cherubim), and "LORD of hosts" (YHWH tseva'ot) becomes "Lord God Almighty" (kyrios ho theos ho pantokratōr) — a Greek equivalent carrying the same connotation of sovereign military power. John adds the temporal formula "who was and is and is to come," fusing the holiness declaration with the eternal self-existence of God (cf. Exod 3:14). The continuity of worship between Isaiah's temple vision and John's throne room vision demonstrates that the God worshiped in the heavenly court is the same YHWH encountered by Isaiah in the earthly temple.

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