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Romans 10:18
But I say, have they not heard? Yes, verily, their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the world.
But I say, have they not heard? Yes, verily, their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the world.
Verse 18. _BUT I SAY, HAVE THEY NOT HEARD?_] But to return to the objection: You say _they have not all_ BELIEVED; I ask: _Have_ _they not all_ HEARD? Have not the means of salvation been placed with...
BUT I SAY - But to this objection, I, the apostle, reply. The objection had been carried through the previous verses. The apostle comes now to reply to it. In doing this, he does not deny the principl...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. Israel's Condition. (Romans 10:1 .)_ 2. Righteousness by Works and by Faith. (Romans 10:5 .) 3. The Gospel Published Abroad. (Romans 10:14 .) 4. Israel's Unbelief. ...
THE REJECTORS OF GOD'S MESSAGE. Romans 10:16. 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, b...
THE MISTAKEN ZEAL (Romans 10:1-13)...
How are they to call on him on whom they have not believed? How are they to believe in him of whom they have not heard? How are they to hear without someone to proclaim the good news to them? How are...
SOUND. Greek. _phthongos._ Only here and 1 Corinthians 14:7. Compare Acts 4:18. EARTH. App-129. ENDS Greek. _peras_. Here, Matthew 12:42.
_But I say_ Here the connexion recurs to Romans 10:16, after the _parenthetic_inference from the quotation there made. Isaiah had said "Who hath believed?" St Paul now quotes again to shew that this m...
E. Romans 9:1 to Romans 11:36. THE REJECTION OF THE GOSPEL BY ISRAEL The theme of Romans 1:16-17 has been worked out; it has been shown that the Gospel is a power of GOD unto salvation for them that b...
The quotations show that the refusal of the Jews to respond to the Gospel and the consequent call of Gentiles was anticipated by prophets, from Moses to Isaiah, and typified by the experience of the p...
ἈΛΛᾺ Κ.Τ.Λ. Israel has heard; ἤκουσαν though οὐχ ὑπήκουσαν. μὴ can it be pleaded that.… ΕἸΣ ΠΑ͂ΣΑΝ Κ.Τ.Λ., Psalms 19:4, quoted not for argument but for illustration: the Gospel has gone forth as wide...
ΜΉ (G3361) используется в вопросах, на которые ожидается отрицательный ответ. ΜΕΝΟΎΝΓΕ (G3304), _см._ Romans 9:20. ΈΞΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΞΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1831) выходить, ΦΘΌΓΓΟΣ (G5353) звук, вибра...
THEIR SOUND WENT INTO ALL THE EARTH— As the passages in the Gospels and Epistles relating to the extensive spreading of religion during the dispensation or reign of the Messiah, have a reference to th...
_TEXT_ Romans 10:14-21. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? Romans 1...
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. BUT I SAY, HAVE THEY NOT HEARD? ('Did they not hear?') - Can Israel, th...
__ Justification-National 18 The proclamation of the gospel of the kingdom, beginning in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, spread to the limits of the land (Act_1:8), and reached beyond it to...
10:18 world. (l-28) See Psalms 19:4 ....
THEIR SOUND, etc.] from Psalms 19:4, i.e. the gospel message was diffused as widely as the declaration by the heavens of the glory of God. Not literally so, but probably every considerable Jewish colo...
ISRAEL REJECTED THROUGH LACK OF FAITH In Romans 9 St. Paul, defending the gospel against objections founded upon the fact that it had been rejected by the Jews as a whole, showed that God had never bo...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 10 THE LAW AND *FAITH 10:1-13 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, my greatest desire is for the people from *Israel to accept *...
(14-21) Thus there is a distinct order — belief, confession, invocation. But before either the last or the first of these steps is taken the gospel must be preached. The Jew, however, cannot plead tha...
HAVE THEY NOT HEARD? — The relations of hearing to belief suggest to the Apostle a possible excuse for the Jews, and the excuse he puts forward interrogatively himself: “But, I ask, did they (the Jews...
CHAPTER 21 JEWISH UNBELIEF AND GENTILE FAITH: PROPHECY Romans 10:1 THE problem of Israel is still upon the Apostle's soul. He has explored here and there the conditions of the fact that his brethren...
The process of convicting the Jews is now under way, and ἀλλὰ λέγω introduces a plea on their behalf. It is Paul who speaks: hence the form of the question μὴ οὐκ ἤκουσαν suggests _his._ opinion as to...
NEEDING MESSENGERS OF GOOD TIDINGS Romans 10:11 The Chosen People chafed, not only at the freeness of God's justifying grace, but because there was no difference made, so far as salvation was concern...
The apostle ever had in mind the Master Himself when he spoke of the righteousness of God. The idea of that righteousness, held by Israel was due to their misunderstanding of the written law, their ig...
(12) But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. (12) An objection: if calling is a testimony of election, were not th...
But I say, have they not heard? He puts an objection, and by his answer shews the Jews are inexcusable in not believing, since the gospel has been preached all the world over, and in places where the...
Paul has justified the matter of his preaching, salvation by grace; he now justifies its _extension._ Not that, as Baur, Holsten, etc., think, he wishes thereby to remove the scruples of the Judeo-Chr...
“ _But I say, Have they not heard? Yea, much more, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world._ ” It is not God who has failed in His part. No; they who have not b...
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? (15) And how shall they preac...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
18._But I say, have they not heard? etc. _Since the minds of men are imbued, by preaching, with the knowledge of God, which leads them to call on God, it remained a question whether the truth of God h...
Having touched on this subject, the apostle, who deeply loved his nation as the people of God, pours out his heart with respect of the doctrine which was a stumbling-stone to them. His desire, the aim...
BUT I SAY, HAVE THEY NOT HEARD?.... ואני אומר, "but I say", is a phrase frequently used by the Jewish doctors in disputation, either in forming or answering objections. The Ethiopic version confines t...
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. Ver. 18. _Yes verily; their sound, &c._] _Sonus tonus, _ οο φθογγος. David...
_But I say, Have they not heard_ As if he had said, Their unbelief was not owing to the want of hearing. For they have heard; _yes, verily_, &c. So many nations have already heard the preachers of the...
BUT I SAY, HAVE THEY NOT HEARD? this is said in reference to the general unbelief of men, verse Romans 10:16; as much as to say, True, few have obeyed; but is this from want of hearing? no; for THEIR...
CONTRAST BETWEEN ISRAEL'S LAW AND THEIR NEED OF GRACE In Romans 9:1 we have seen God's sovereign title maintained in having an elect people according to grace. Now inRomans 10:1 the contrast between l...
How do we get faith? A. Hearing the word of God. B. Study, meditate, learn the word of God. NOTE: Faith also comes from putting that learned to the test in our lives. 18 BUT: Haven't they heard? Y...
BUT. SAY, DID THEY NOT HEAR? YEA, VERILY, THEIR SOUND WENT OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH, AND THEIR WORDS UNTO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD. 'Did they not hear? -'To the grumpy Jew who would claim: "This is the f...
18-21 Did not the Jews know that the Gentiles were to be called in? They might have known it from Moses and Isaiah. Isaiah speaks plainly of the grace and favour of God, as going before in the receiv...
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...
But I say [To give my cornered Jewish objector every chance to escape from his obvious culpability, I ask in his behalf this question], _Did they not hear?_ [This question demands a negative answer--a...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II For the feet anointed with fragrant ointment mean divine instruction travelling with renown to the ends of the earth. "For their sound hath gone forth to...
Romans 10:18 But G235 say G3004 (G5719) have G191 not G3378 heard G191 (G5656) indeed G3304 Their...
‘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 messag...
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 bein...
2. MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY: THE JEWS EXCLUDED THROUGH THEIR OWN UNBELIEF. For convenience we may divide this passage into two sections: (I.) Chap. Romans 9:30-33 sets forth the fact that the Jews had not...
II. _Proof that the Jews were Excluded through their Unbelief._ The section may be divided into four paragraphs: The Jews with all their religious zeal failed to recognize (1.) Christ as the end of t...
Romans 10:12-18. We mark these verses as a separate paragraph. In the previous verses the method of faith is shown to have been God's way of salvation in all ages; here it is declared to be His way fo...
Romans 10:18. BUT I SAY. The strongly adversative ‘but' introduces the answer to a possible objection, in excuse of the unbelief spoken of in Romans 10:16. DID THEY NOT HEAR? ‘They,' _i.e.,_ those wh...
DID THEY NOT HEAR? (μη ουκ ηκουσαν?). Rather, "Did they fail to hear?" (expecting the negative answer μη, while ουκ blends with the verb). See on 1 Corinthians 9:5 for this construction.YEA, VERILY...
WORLD (Greek, "oikoumenē", means "inhabited earth"). (_ See Scofield) - (Luke 2:1). _...
Romans 10:1. _Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved._ They had hunted Paul from city to city, but the only feeling for them that he had was a wish that...
This chapter is a gospel in itself; it very clearly points out the plan of salvation by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 10:1. _Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that...
Romans 10:1. _Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved._ The same thing over again his deep concern for his countrymen. Romans 10:2. _For I bear them rec...
Romans 10:1. _Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved._ Desire is the mother and the soul of prayer «my heart's desire and prayer.» These Israelites had...
CONTENTS: Israel's failure explained by unbelief. The plan of salvation. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Moses, Isaiah, Paul. CONCLUSION: Sincerity is not a ground of safety; self-righteousness is not a gro...
Romans 10:1. _My heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved._ Chrysostom's comment is, my “vehement desire” for their salvation. St. Paul having declared his mind, in the...
BUT I ASK? "They must hear in order to believe; do you mean to say they did not hear?" OF COURSE THEY DID. This is so clearly the case that there is a touch of irony in Paul's voice. He quotes Psalms...
_But I say, Have they not heard?_ Yes, verily, their sound went into all the earth. Observe I. The original application of these words--voices in nature. II. The apostolic use of them--the multitu...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 10:18 THEY who have heard the message probably refers to the Jewish people (see vv. Romans 10:1,...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 10:12.—A favourite Pauline expression declaring the exuberant grace of Christ. Romans 10:13.—Double argument for Christ’s divinity. He is called Jehovah, and is invoked. Roma...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 10:20.—εὑρέθην, I was found; used of God when exciting men by His benefits to seek and worship Him. Romans 10:21.—Eben Ezra informs us that Moses Hacoben said Romans 10:20 is...
EXPOSITION In this chapter the view of the whole subject introduced at Romans 9:30 is continued and carried out, according to which the present rejection of the Jews as a nation is traced to no absolu...
Now Paul again reaffirms his love and desire for his brethren after the flesh. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they...
1 Kings 18:10; Acts 2:5; Acts 26:20; Acts 28:23; Colossians 1:23;...
Did they not hear? [μ η ο υ κ η κ ο υ σ α ν]. A negative answer is implied by the interrogative particle. "Surely it is not true that they did not hear." Sound [φ θ ο γ γ ο ς]. Only here and 1 Corinth...
But their unbelief was not owing to the want of hearing For they have heard. Yes verily — So many nations have already heard the preachers of the gospel, that I may in some sense say of them as David...
It was no less than. miracle that the gospel, in the space of. few years, should be preached to all nations, and planted in the remotest parts of the world; and yet thus it was; which makes St. Paul h...