Romans 10:16-19

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 10:1-21

The Eternal Destiny Of All People, Both Jew And Gentile, Is Based On Belief In God’s Messiah, Jesus Christ. (9:30-10:21). There is now a vast change in Paul’s argument, for it will be noted that from Romans 9:30 to Romans 10:17 Paul lays huge emphasis on faith and on believing in Jesus Christ, this in contrast with Romans 9:6-29 where they are not mentioned. Faith in Jesus Christ as the Messiah undergirds this whole passage. The Greek words for faith and/or believing occur in almost every... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 10:14-21

God Has Sent Out His Messianic Messengers To The World But Israel Have Not Listened (10:14-21). Having established that salvation is to be found through faith in Jesus the Messiah, and that it is being offered to ‘whoever’, the question would now arise as to how the ‘whoever’ would hear. So Paul now stresses that the necessary means for reception of the message are in place. God has sent out His Messianic messengers both to Israel and to the world in order to arouse faith in the Messiah, just... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 10:16

‘But they did not all listen to the glad tidings. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” ’ But that not all would receive those glad tidings was also made apparent in Scripture, for Isaiah says, ‘Lord, who has believed our report?’ (Isaiah 53:1). The opening ‘Lord’ is found in LXX but not in MT. The noun ‘report’ (akoe) comes from the same root as the word ‘hear’ in Romans 10:15 (akousowsin). Thus the idea is, ‘who has believed what they have heard from the messengers of the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 10:17

‘So belief comes of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.’ All that has been stated in Romans 10:14-16 has referred to a hearing of the Good News, with a view to believing it, there being the recognition that the Jews as a whole will not believe. So Paul now brings out how important the hearing (Romans 10:15) and the not hearing (Romans 10:16) are, for he sees belief as a consequence of such hearing, that is of hearing ‘the word of Christ (Messiah)’. ‘The word of Christ’ means either the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 10:18

‘But I say, “Did they not hear?” Yes, truly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.” Paul then asks the question as to whether in fact the Messianic message has not been heard (in order to emphasise that it has been). He is no doubt referring to an objection put by some that men had not heard the message. His reply is put in Scriptural terminology, (but not necessarily as providing an authoritative citation, for it has no introductory ‘it is written’... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 10:19

‘But I say, “Did Israel not know?” First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with what is no nation, with a nation void of understanding will I anger you.’ The switch here to addressing Israel tends to confirm that what has been said previously was directed more widely, that is, as speaking to both believing Jews and Gentiles. So the question now is, but what about (unbelieving) Israel? Did they not know? That raises the issue of what it was they were supposed to know. In context there... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 10:16-21

Romans 10:16-Ecclesiastes : . The Rejectors of God’ s Message. Romans 10:16-Job : . “ Hearing the glad tidings” is the opportunity of salvation: “ can it be that they did not hear? Nay, surely, the sound has reached every land.” Not hearing, but obedience was to seek. Romans 10:19-Ecclesiastes : . “ Or” should we put it that “ Israel did not know” ?— the double “ I say” ( Romans 10:18 f.) marks the repetition of the same question in another form: “ to know” is “ to hear” understandingly... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 10:16

But they have not all obeyed the gospel: he here preventeth a cavil of the Jews. Thus they might reason: If the apostles and preachers of the gospel are sent with so great authority from God, and bring such a welcome message, how comes it to pass that so few receive it, and yield obedience thereunto? To this he answers, that it need not seem strange, because it was foretold long ago by the prophet, Isaiah 53:1. It is not to be understood as if this was the cause of their unbelief, because... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 10:17

This is the conclusion of the former gradation, Romans 10:14. He speaketh here of the ordinary means whereby faith is wrought; not confining or limiting the Spirit of God, who worketh, or may work, by extraordinary means, yea, without any means at all. See Poole on "Romans 10:14". By the word of God; by the command of God: q.d. The gospel could not be lawfully preached to them, for them to hear it, but by God’s command; and therefore the apostles and others, in preaching the gospel to the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 10:18

He answers an objection, that some one might make in behalf of the Jews, to excuse them; that they could not believe, because they had not heard; and faith, as in the foregoing verse, comes by hearing. To this he answers, that the gospel was published to the whole world; therefore the Jews must needs have heard it. That the gospel had been preached all the world over, he proves by a testimony taken ont of Psalms 19:4; q. d. David tells you, that all have heard, or might hear; for the sound of... read more

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