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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Isaiah 61:2 → Leviticus 25:10

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 61:2BSB

to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor and the day of our God's vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

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 61:2 proclaims "the year of the LORD's favor (שְׁנַת רָצוֹן לַיהוָה, shenat ratson la-YHWH) and the day of our God's vengeance," drawing on the Jubilee legislation of Leviticus 25:10 where the fiftieth year is proclaimed a year of דְּרוֹר (deror, "liberty/release") throughout the land. Isaiah transforms the cyclical Jubilee institution into a singular eschatological event combining mercy ("the year of the LORD's favor") and judgment ("the day of our God's vengeance"). While Leviticus 25 mandated periodic economic reset every fifty years, Isaiah envisions a definitive, once-for-all intervention in which God simultaneously liberates His people and judges their oppressors — the ultimate Jubilee that no agricultural calendar could contain.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme (supporting/thematic — דְּרוֹר, the Jubilee release-word, sits at Isaiah 61:1, so the bare 61:2 pair holds only within the 61:1-2 quotation unit)

▸ The Spirit of the Lord

Linked Mentions 5

Trajectory Tables 4

Anchor Texts 1

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

Isaiah 61:2 → Leviticus 25:10

Significance

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