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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 61:1 → Leviticus 25:10

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 61:1BSB

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

Earlier text

Leviticus 25:10BSB

So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.

Significance

Isaiah 61:1 announces "liberty to the captives" (דְּרוֹר לַשְּׁבוּיִם, deror lashshevuyim), using the exact Jubilee vocabulary from Leviticus 25:10: "proclaim liberty (דְּרוֹר, deror) in the land for all its inhabitants." The pairing of דְּרוֹר (deror, "liberty") with the verb קָרָא (qara, "proclaim") co-occurs in only a handful of verses in the whole canon, making the verbal connection unmistakable. The institutional Jubilee typology itself is carried by TT 174 (Year of Jubilee); here the verse-to-verse tie is a verbal allusion, not a type. Leviticus 25 mandates the Jubilee every fiftieth year — slaves freed, debts cancelled, land restored. Isaiah transforms this periodic socioeconomic institution into an eschatological event: the anointed Servant proclaims a cosmic Jubilee that releases not just economic debtors but spiritual captives. The "year of the LORD's favor" (שְׁנַת רָצוֹן, shenat ratson) transcends the agricultural calendar to become the decisive moment of divine redemption.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment / inner-biblical allusion (eschatologized release-statute)

▸ The Spirit of the Lord

Linked Mentions 6

Trajectory Tables 5

Anchor Texts 1

Isaiah 61:1-2 — The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me

Isaiah 61:1 → Leviticus 25:10

Significance

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