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Note on Cross-Testament Parallels Tool

The cross_testament_parallels_v2.py tool requires sentence-transformers embeddings which are not currently available. Parallels were gathered through concept_context.py, Nave's topical entries, and Strong's concordance data from library entries instead.

Key Cross-Testament Connections (from library and concept context data)

Deut 21:22-23 → NT Quotations/Allusions

  1. Gal 3:13 — Direct quotation: "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree" (Deut 21:23 LXX)
  2. Paul changes: drops "of God" (elohim), adds "every one" (pas), universalizes
  3. Acts 5:30 — Allusion: kremasantes epi xylou ("having hanged on a tree")
  4. Acts 10:39 — Allusion: kremasantes epi xylou (same formula)
  5. Acts 13:29 — Allusion: kathelontes apo tou xylou ("having taken down from the tree")
  6. 1 Pet 2:24 — Allusion: epi to xylon ("on the tree")

Deut 21:23 ← OT Practice Passages

  1. Josh 8:29 — King of Ai hanged on a tree until eventide → sundown compliance
  2. Josh 10:26-27 — Five kings hanged on five trees until evening → sundown removal → cave/stones
  3. 2 Sam 4:12 — Ish-bosheth's assassins hanged by pool in Hebron
  4. Esther 2:23; 7:10; 9:13-14,25 — Hanging on ets (tree/gallows) — same Hebrew vocabulary

Isaiah 53 → 1 Peter 2:24

  1. Isa 53:4 — "he hath borne our griefs" → 1 Pet 2:24 "bare our sins" (anaphero)
  2. Isa 53:5 — "with his stripes we are healed" → 1 Pet 2:24 "by whose stripes ye were healed" (nearly verbatim)
  3. Isa 53:6 — "All we like sheep have gone astray" → 1 Pet 2:25 "ye were as sheep going astray"

Curse Vocabulary Chain (from WG-curse and TR-arar-epikataratos library entries)

  • H779 arar → G1944 epikataratos (LXX, 35x co-occurrence, PMI 31.14)
  • H7045 qelalah → G2671 katara (LXX, 26x co-occurrence, PMI 29.93)
  • Deut 21:23 uses qelalah; Gal 3:13 uses both katara (noun) and epikataratos (adjective)

Tree of Life Arc

  • Gen 2:9 — ets hayyim → LXX xylon tes zoes → tree of life in garden
  • Gen 3:22-24 — access to tree of life barred after sin
  • Prov 3:18; 11:30; 13:12 — wisdom/righteousness as "tree of life" (figurative)
  • Rev 2:7; 22:2,14 — xylon tes zoes restored in new creation
  • Rev 22:3 — "there shall be no more curse" — explicit curse-reversal