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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 5:11 → Daniel 7:10

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 5:11BSB

Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels and living creatures and elders encircling the throne, and their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.

Earlier text

Daniel 7:10BSB

A river of fire was flowing, coming out from His presence. Thousands upon thousands attended Him, and myriads upon myriads stood before Him. The court was convened, and the books were opened.

Significance

Daniel's throne-room vision describes the Ancient of Days attended by an innumerable heavenly host: "thousands upon thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him" ('alph 'alphin... veribbo rivvan). John echoes this exact numerical formula: "myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands" (myriades myriadōn kai chiliades chiliadōn). In Daniel, this angelic assembly gathers for the judgment of the beast kingdoms; in Revelation, they gather to worship the Lamb who has triumphed. The continuity of the heavenly court imagery affirms that the same divine throne room envisioned by Daniel is now revealed in its fullness to John — but with a crucial addition: at the center stands the slain Lamb, receiving the same worship as the One seated on the throne. The angelic hosts who attended YHWH in judgment now acclaim the Lamb in worship, implying the Lamb's full participation in divine sovereignty.

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