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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

Isaiah 6:13 → Deuteronomy 7:6

Echo

Later text

Isaiah 6:13BSB

And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land."

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 7:6BSB

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

Significance

Isaiah 6:13 concludes the hardening oracle with a glimmer of hope: even after devastating judgment, "so the holy seed (זֶרַע קֹדֶשׁ, zera qodesh) will be a stump in the land." The "holy seed" shares the holiness root קדשׁ (qodesh / qadosh) with Deuteronomy 7:6, where Israel is called "a holy people (עַם קָדוֹשׁ, am qadosh) to the LORD your God." Both texts ground Israel's identity in holiness — Deuteronomy as national calling, Isaiah as the quality that survives judgment. The tree may be felled, but the stump retains the "holy seed" that constitutes true Israel. Isaiah's "holy seed" concept redefines election: holiness belongs not to the destroyed majority but to the surviving remnant from which new growth will come. Deuteronomy 7:6 further names Israel God's treasured possession (סְגֻלָּה, segullah), a status that clings to the remnant even after judgment strips away the rest.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

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