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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 6:9-10 → Deuteronomy 29:2-4

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 6:9-10BSB

And He replied: "Go and tell this people, 'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.' Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 29:2-4BSB

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. You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders. Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

Significance

The wisdom theme connects Isaiah 6 and Deuteronomy 29, revealing God's order for creation and life. Wisdom personified in the OT finds ultimate expression in Christ, who is 'the wisdom of God' (1 Cor 1:24, 30), in whom 'are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge' (Col 2:3).

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 6:9-10 → Deuteronomy 29:2-4

Significance

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