Genesis 9 in the New Testament
Says Acts 15:20 tells the Gentile believers to abstain from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood. The Greek shares αἷμα with Swete 9:4. Matt 26:52 has, For all who draw the sword will die by the sword. Rev 13:10 speaks of dying by the sword. Neither shares a content word with Swete 9:6. Rev 4:3 has a rainbow (ἶρις) encircling the throne, and Rev 10:1 a rainbow above an angel’s head: ἶρις, not the τόξον of Swete 9:13–16. 1 Tim 4:3 speaks of abstinence from certain foods; Swete 9:3 has εἰς βρῶσιν. The apparatus units are set out in the Greek note on form and are not restated here. Other New Testament texts that name Noah and the flood are reached through the Genesis 6 xrefs to Heb 11:7 and to Matt 24:37–39, and are not taken up as new units here.
Implies The New Testament treats Noah as a real person, as the Genesis 7 note on persons and history already sets out. The six texts of this chapter are read for their wording and their bearing, in the xrefs that follow.
Uncertain Form agreement is not a claim about which text a writer used. Whether Acts 15:20 binds the command of 9:4 today, and whether Matt 26:52 or Rev 4:3 draws on this chapter, is open. No typological system is built from the links, and no lean is taken.
Claims
- SaysActs 15:20 shares blood with Swete 9:4; Matt 26:52 and Rev 13:10 share no content word with Swete 9:6; Rev 4:3 and 10:1 have iris, not toxon; 1 Tim 4:3 speaks of foods; other Noah texts are reached through the Genesis 6 xrefs.
- ImpliesThe New Testament treats Noah as a real person, as the Genesis 7 note on persons and history sets out.
- UncertainForm agreement is not a claim about sources; whether Acts 15:20 binds 9:4 today, and whether Matt 26:52 or Rev 4:3 draws on this chapter, remains open; no lean is taken.
Citations
- BSB public domain Acts 15:20; Matt 26:52; Rev 4:3, 10:1, 13:10; 1 Tim 4:3
- SBLGNT CC BY 4.0 Acts 15:20; Matt 26:52; Rev 4:3, 10:1, 13:10; 1 Tim 4:3
- LXX (Swete) CC BY-SA 4.0 Gen 9:1–29, vol. 1, pp. 13–15 (oldtestamentingr01swetuoft, viewer leaves n44–n46); checked against the printed page (scan)
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