Isaiah 25:8
Hebrew Bible
7 On this mountain he will swallow up the shroud that is over all the peoples, the woven covering that is over all the nations; 8 he will swallow up death permanently. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from every face, and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. Indeed, the Lord has announced it! 9 At that time they will say, “Look, here is our God! We waited for him, and he delivered us. Here is the Lord! We waited for him. Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!”
Date: 7th-5th Centuries B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX Hosea 13:14
Septuagint
12 a conspiracy of injustice. As for Ephraim, his sin is concealed. 13 Labor pains like those of a woman giving birth will come to him. This is your wise son, because he will not hold up at the crushing of children. 14 From the hand of Hades I will rescue, and from death I will ransom them. Where is your penalty, O death? Where is your sting, O Hades? Comfort is hidden away from my eyes. 15 Since this will separate between brothers; the Lord will bring upon him a wind, burning heat from the wilderness, and it will dry up his veins; it will dry up his fountains. It will dry up his land, and all his desired vessels.
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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1 Corinthians 15:55
New Testament
53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen, “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
Date: 55-57 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The combined scriptural quotation’s second line in 1 Corinthians 15:55 represents a Pauline adaptation of Hosea 13:14 ... In the Masoretic of Hosea 13:14a, God, who has already decided to destroy the people of Israel (13:9), asks, “Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death?” Consequently, the questions in 13:14b, “Where are your plagues, O death? Where is your destruction, O sheol?” are calling upon a personified death and Sheol to work their destruction upon the people. Similarly, in LXX Hosea 13:14a, God asks, “Shall I rescue them out of the hand of hades and shall I redeem them from death?” so that the questions in 13:14b, “Where is your punishment, O death? Where is your sting, O hades?” are invoking a personified death and Hades to destroy Israel. But in 1 Corinthians 15:55 the questions “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” following upon the first part of the combined quotation in 15:54b, “Death is swallowed up in victory,” function rather as an emphatic taunting of an utterly defeated personified death to work its destructive power. Instead of the Hebrew “plagues” and the LXX’s “punishment”, Paul’s quotation of Hosea 13:14b has “victory”, which strengthens the gezera shava combination with the quotation of Isaiah 25:8a in 1 Corinthians 15:54b. Both quotes thus have not only the word “death” but also the word “victory” in common for their mutual interpretation ..."
Heil, John Paul
The Rhetorical Role of Scripture in 1 Corinthians
(pp. 249-250) Society of Biblical Literature, 2005
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