Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.God's righteousness ... as used here is not analogous to the usage of the same term elsewhere (Romans 1:17; 3:24,25, etc.), but means "God's commandments," as is the meaning in Psalms 119:172 KJV, "For all thy commandments are righteousness." The inference in this verse that Israel should have subjected themselves to God's righteousness requires that... read more
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 10:2
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.What made the loss of Israel so tragic was the fact that they were actually a very zealous and God-fearing people, superior in every way to the Gentiles, whose godlessness was the shame of all nations. Sanday's quotation from Josephus stresses this character of the Jews, thus:They had a zeal of God .... The Jew knew the Law better than his own name .... The sacred rules were punctually obeyed .... The great... read more