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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 6:9 → Deuteronomy 29:2

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 6:9BSB

And He replied: "Go and tell this people, 'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 29:2BSB

Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, "You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.

Significance

Isaiah 6:9-10 commissions Isaiah to preach judgment: "Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive. Make the heart of this people calloused." Deuteronomy 29:2-4 provides the historical precedent: Moses told Israel "You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes... Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear." Both texts use the same three organs of perception — heart (לֵב, lev), eyes (עֵינַיִם, einayim), ears (אָזְנַיִם, oznayim) — to describe spiritual imperception. Isaiah's hardening commission deliberately echoes Moses' assessment of Israel's constitutional inability to perceive what God has done, establishing a pattern of divinely permitted spiritual blindness that runs from the wilderness through Isaiah's day.

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

▸ Hearing They Do Not Understand

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

Remnant (Faithful Few Preserved) Trajectory Table

Anchor Texts 1

Isaiah 6:9-10 — Hearing They Do Not Understand

Isaiah 6:9 → Deuteronomy 29:2

Significance

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