], Think not the Faith by which the just shall live. 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.. Reconciliation. Romans 10:5-13. But this antithesis is unknown to antiquity, especially to the Bible. Note: "These verses don"t stress faith over against obedience (Paul doesn"t contrast these); they stress faith over against earning." Because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10. Furthermore, at the Passover, the whole Jewish nation had seen him shamefully crucified and buried. Потому что сердцем веруют к праведности. They had, of course, expected a mighty Prince, exalted in splendor, riding roughshod over all of his enemies and restoring the glory of their earthly kingdom. Their shame was of themselves: in the manner of their treatment of sacred privilege. With the mouth confession is made unto salvation: Romans, and often these summaries refer to the results of the action in view, as here (cf. 1. By Lois Parker Edstrom. Peter's interpretation of Joel's quotation was perhaps the most universally known and the most frequently repeated sermon of the entire New Testament age. 520. Condemnation is in every sense out of the question! All this free citation, uncritical according to our ideas and methods, rests on a profoundly right apprehension of the meaning of the Old Testament as a whole. No practical mistake is more common or more dangerous than to suppose that all zeal about God and religion is necessarily a godly zeal. Moreover, Christ himself, upon the occasion of a FORMAL confession BY Peter (Matthew 16:16-18), reciprocated with a FORMAL confession OF Peter, with his own precious promise almost certainly in view, wherein he had declared only a short while previously that. And when Paul says, "With the heart man believeth unto righteousness," he expresses the relation of faith, not to our sanctification, but to justification. Romans 10:10. For. ], At times, the elders of the Hurons, the repositories of their ancient traditions, were induced to assemble at the house of the Jesuits, who explained to them the principal points of their doctrine, and invited them to a discussion. That obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus (1 Thessalonians 1:8). The legal method of justification is, for sinners, as impracticable as climbing up into heaven or going down into the abyss, Romans 10:5-7. It is true to say that such a confession as is meant here was made at baptism; but to limit it to baptism, or to use this verse to prove baptism essential to salvation, is, as Weiss says, unerhörter Dogmatismus. 8. 10 Dear brothers and sisters, [] the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. It is precisely in that omission that the widespread unbelief of this generation originates. Hodge has the following clear word on the construction of Paul's defense here: These verses are the enabling charter of every true missionary labor on earth. “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness.”. (2) Hope to inspire effort.—The victory of Christ is seen to carry consequences of the utmost importance. HENRY ALFORD (1810-1871) The New Testament for English Readers Romans Commentary Recommended. 365. They are coordinates in every sense of the word. Paul's own understanding of calling on the Lord's name would inevitably have been associated with the words of Ananias quoted above (Acts 22:16) which associated them with his own baptism. Romans 10:9-10 talk about the mouth and the heart not as if this is the single New Testament formula for salvation (for example, as if every salvation text must mention the mouth, or as if deaf-mutes cannot be saved, neither of which is true). Be patient, heart, light breaketh by and by. Hence Christ required it, in the most express terms, and threatened to deny those who denied him, Matthew 10:32-33; 1 John 4:15. This seems to be a reasonable conclusion since the confession is to be made with the mouth. The end, or aim, of the law was to produce righteousness; but the only person who ever lived to achieve perfect fulfillment of the law, thus achieving that righteousness, is the Lord Jesus Christ. Vaughan (J. There is no condemnation now. This verse is the occasion for the "faith only" advocates to repeat the doctrine they have imported into the book of Romans. You can ignore the wider context of Romans 9-11 and zero in on the pregnant statements in verse 9 (“If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart … Continue reading "Commentary on Romans 10:5-15" The thesis maintained here, that calling upon the name of the Lord has reference to obeying the gospel (in its four primary steps), is remarkably supported by the apostle Peter's interpretation of what his sermon topic really meant. But we ought not on this account to conclude that confession is the cause of our salvation. 8), over against a refusal to confess, referred to by Paul as He who is wrong here, ruins his own soul; and if he teaches any other than the scriptural method of justification, he ruins the souls of others, Romans 10:3. It is indeed in deepest accordance with the spirit of Isaiah; and St. Peter (1 Peter 2:6), we notice, follows St. Paul in the use of them. When the people cried out, "What shall we do?" B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1963), Vol. with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 1175. But I say, Did they not hear? “Confession is made unto salvation.”, It is true that the life is the greatest and most impressive witness for Christ, and that without the witness of the life all that the lips may utter for Him is worse than worthless; but this is not all the truth. Search results for 'Romans 10:10' using the 'New American Standard Version'. This is further illustrated (Romans 10:10), and the order inverted, because there must first be faith in the heart before there can be an acceptable confession with the mouth. The order is reversed in this verse and the true order (faith, then confession). How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick. The individual rarely detached himself from the community of which he was a part, weighed the evidences for himself, and formed his own creed. Caeterum viderint quid respondeant Paulo, qui nobis hodie imaginariam quandam fidem fastuose jactant, quae secreto cordis contenta, confessione oris, veluti re supervacanea et inani, supersedeat. And Isaiah is very bold, and he saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I became manifest unto them that asked not of me. Unto righteousness—This self-surrendering trust being accepted, the believer is pardoned and held as righteous; by the Holy Spirit he is in measure sanctified and made intrinsically righteous. These questions are the taunts of unbelief. Much of the feebleness and depression of the spiritual life of to-day is owing to the fact that so many professed believers in Christ have forgotten that “with the mouth confession is made unto salvation”—their own as well as that of others.1 [Note: G. S. One"s confession that Jesus is Lord would be to God initially (i.e, expressing trust in Christ to the Father), but most interpreters have believed that the confession in view goes beyond God and includes other people as well. In the previous chapter, Paul vindicated the righteousness of God, showing the justice of his rejecting Israel and taking up the Gentiles, and including them along with the Jews and all people, as beneficiaries of the gospel of peace; and, in this chapter, Paul stressed the fact that the rejection of Israel as a nation from having any further covenant, as a nation, with God, had not affected in any manner the status of Jews as individuals, who, exactly like all others, are called to enjoy the privileges of redemption in the Lord Jesus Christ. ], ii. The significant "pairings" of the preconditions of salvation, mentioned in the above paragraph, are entitled to a little further consideration. (the obvious meaning of their question being "How shall we call upon the name of the Lord and be saved? Many of us who would find little or no difficulty in speaking for Christ to a stranger are stricken dumb within our own homes. True faith always leads to confession; confession is nothing without true faith. Thus the proposition of Romans 14:10, πάντες γὰρ κ. τ. As Murray noted: The ends of the earth ... translates a Greek expression which means literally, "the inhabited earth," as seen in the English Revised Version (1885) margin. The Jewish hierarchy seemed perpetually unaware that any such thing as an earthly kingdom was not in God's plan at all. As the author of this epistle said, "Let God be true, but every man a liar" (Romans 3:4). In Revelation 21:8 those who have not the courage to make such confession are meant by the "fearful.". See note on James 2:19.] For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.—Romans 10:10. Israel was totally to blame for the rejection and hardening that would fall upon them like an avalanche, indeed had already done so; only God would not formally announce it until the 11th chapter of Paul's epistle. 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: righteous (See Scofield "Romans 10:10"). For when he died unto sin, i.e. Moses is in fact describing a religion of the heart: “The Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.” To one who thus turns with heart and soul to the Lord, obedience is easy: “The word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart.” This, says St. Paul, is in substance “the word of faith, which we preach.” St. Paul’s explanation is not allegorical but spiritual; it penetrates through the letter of the Old Testament to its spirit, and that is the spirit of the Gospel. sin Sin. Mr. Brown had suddenly been stricken down by death, and in a moment had been called from time into eternity. 1. There is only one way: preach the word! The proof is as follows: Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say (Luke 6:46)?SIZE>. [2] Yigael Yadin, Masada (New York: Random House, 1966), p. 12. Various meanings have been given to this name. ROMANS ROAD to RIGHTEOUSNESS: Romans 1:18-3:20: Romans 3:21-5:21: Romans 6:1-8:39: Romans 9:1-11:36: Romans 12:1-16:27: SIN: SALVATION: SANCTIFICATION: SOVEREIGNTY Repent ye and turn again that your sins may be blotted out (Acts 3:91). That "disobedience" does not mean "disbelief" is proved millions of times by the believers who do not obey. Their evil kings led them repeatedly into rebellion against God; and the lives of many of their kings, as Solomon's for example, were lives of shameless debauchery. Save the world by preaching? The legal plan was "Do, and thou shalt live" (Leviticus 18:5).Romans 10:6-10. 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