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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Judges 13:17-18 → Exodus 23:20-21

Echo

Later text

Judges 13:17-18BSB

Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes to pass?” “Why do you ask my name,” said the angel of the LORD, “since it is beyond comprehension?”

Earlier text

Exodus 23:20-21BSB

Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.

Significance

Exodus 23:20-21 describes the angel God sends before Israel, warning that "My name is in him" (שְׁמִי בְּקִרְבּוֹ, shemi beqirbo), suggesting this angel bears the divine identity. In Judges 13:17-18, Manoah asks the angel of the LORD for his name, and the angel responds: "Why do you ask my name? It is wonderful" (פֶּלִאי, peli)—a term associated with divine attributes (cf. Isa 9:6). Both passages present an angelic figure whose identity is bound up with God's own name and character, yet whose full nature remains mysterious. The refusal to give a name in Judges parallels Exodus's warning that God's name resides within the angel, suggesting both texts describe the same category of divine mediator—an angel so closely identified with God that naming him is tantamount to naming God.

Found via: Keil and Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament (1866)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

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