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Intertextuality Pair
Echo
Later text
And they sang a new song: "Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth."
Earlier text
Genesis 1:28BSB
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth."
The new song to the Lamb compresses three clauses of the Adamic commission into a single consummative vision. The redeemed are purchased "from every tribe and tongue and people and nation" — the fill the earth clause realized as a redeemed humanity gathered from the whole world; they are constituted "a kingdom and priests" — the original Edenic priest-king role of Adam (Gen 1:28 with Gen 2:15, here fused with Exod 19:6); and they "will reign upon the earth" — the dominion / rule (rādâ) clause finally fulfilled. This is Eden restored and consummated: the commission that every prior Adam-figure failed to complete is brought to its goal in those redeemed by the Last Adam's blood. Per the ATN §4 this is an allusion (composite with Exod 19:6, no citation formula) functioning as consummative typological fulfillment — three Adamic-commission clauses fulfilled in one of the four most theologically weighty uses in the entire network.