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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

Song of Solomon 8:6 → Exodus 28:29

Echo

Later text

Song of Solomon 8:6BSB

Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.

Earlier text

Exodus 28:29BSB

Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he shall bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of judgment, as a continual reminder before the LORD.

Significance

Exodus 28:29 commands that "Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he shall bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart (עַל לִבּוֹ, al libbo) on the breastpiece of judgment, as a continual reminder before the LORD." Song of Solomon 8:6 uses strikingly similar imagery: "Set me as a seal over your heart (עַל לִבֶּךָ, al libbeka), as a seal upon your arm." Both texts describe bearing someone's identity close to the heart—the high priest carries Israel's names over his heart before God, and the beloved asks to be impressed upon the lover's heart as an indelible seal. The breastplate's priestly function of perpetual intercession provides the theological backdrop for the Song's intimate metaphor: to be "set upon the heart" is to be carried permanently into the presence of the one who matters most.

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

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