Taking methodological cues from Richard Hays’ important monograph, Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (1989, 20), many interpreters have adopted Hays’ figure of metalepsis as a way of understanding how “unstated or suppressed (transumed) points of resonance” from a source text might inform the use of the OT in the NT. This paper will examine critically the figure of metalepsis as it employed in biblical studies, including interrogating its origin (e.g., C. H. Dodd’s influence on Hays), how meaning is derived using the methodology, and the role that textual pluriformity must (but often does not) play in the discussion of metalepsis. Several case studies will be offered to illustrate the methodological issues, including discussion of how the trope of metalepsis functions very differently if one is reading the Old Testament text as represented in the MT vs. LXX.