A small Wroot Press project. Catena— Latin for a chain — is how the medieval scribes named a text built from links of older text. The Bible is full of them: a later writer reaches back, quotes, alludes, half-remembers. We mark those links so you can hear them. Each passage carries chips pointing to the Scripture beneath it; the kind of chip tells you whether the borrowing is a quotation, an allusion, a faint echo, or a figure with no words shared at all. The method follows Richard Hays’ Echoes of Scripture — including his honesty that some echoes are contested, which we mark rather than hide.
For to which of the angels did he say at any time, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father?’ and again, ‘I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?’
I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, ‘You are my son. Today I have become your father.’
The royal-enthronement decree, applied to the Son. Verbatim (high volume) and recurrent — Ps 2 returns at Heb 5:5. The first link in the chain.
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