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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

Daniel 7:13-14 → Psalm 8:4-6

Allusion

Later text

Daniel 7:13-14BSB

In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence. And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

Earlier text

Psalm 8:4-6BSB

what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him? You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor. You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

Significance

Psalm 8 asks, "what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man (בֶּן־אָדָם, ben-ʾadam) that You care for him?" — and answers that God "crowned him with glory and honor" and "placed everything under his feet." This is the lyrical celebration of the Adamic dominion of Genesis 1:26-28. Daniel 7:13-14 carries the same son-of-man motif — now in Aramaic (kəbar ʾĕnāš), across the language seam from the Psalm's Hebrew ben-ʾadam — into an apocalyptic register: a figure "like a son of man" comes on the clouds of heaven and is "given dominion, glory, and kingship" — the very pair, glory and dominion, that Psalm 8 ascribes to crowned humanity. The two texts are the lyrical and the apocalyptic faces of one trajectory: the vocation of the son of man to rule under God. The connection is longitudinal and redemptive-historical, the theme advancing from the dignity of created humanity (Ps 8) to the eternal enthronement of the representative Man (Dan 7), with escalation from a dominion presently incomplete to one "that will not pass away." This is why the NT freely fuses the two with Psalm 110:1 (Heb 2:6-9; 1 Cor 15:25-27; Eph 1:20-22): they describe the same enthroned figure. The telos is not human self-exaltation but the Son of Man crowned — the King in whom Psalm 8's wondering "what is man?" finds its glad answer, so that beholding His glory we are drawn to desire and serve Him.

Found via: G.K. Beale, A New Testament Biblical Theology (Baker, 2011), ch. 6; Beale & Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Baker, 2007)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme + Redemptive-Historical Progression

▸ What Is Man ▸ The Son of Man Receiving Dominion

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Anchor Texts 2

Daniel 7:13-14 → Psalm 8:4-6

Significance

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