Romanos 10:16

16 No entanto, nem todos os israelitas aceitaram as boas-novas. Pois Isaías diz: “Senhor, quem creu em nossa mensagem?”^[a]

Romanos 10:16 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 10:16

But they have not all obeyed the Gospel
Who hear it, and to whom it is preached; for though ministers may be regularly sent forth, and rightly preach the Gospel in the purity of it, yet there is no success without the power of God attending it: ministers may preach, and men may hear, and yet not obey the Gospel; that is, cordially embrace the doctrines, and sincerely submit to the ordinances of it:

for Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report;
or "our hearing", agreeably to the Hebrew word in ( Isaiah 53:1 ) , (wntewmv) , and which designs not the "hearing" with which the apostles heard Christ, though what they heard from him, they made known to men; but the hearing, or the word heard, which others had from them, namely, the report they made in their ministry, of the person and grace of Christ, which was disregarded, when the arm and power of the Lord were not, revealed and exerted: this was the case of the Jews in Isaiah's time, and the same in the times of Christ and his apostles, and is always the case, when divine power does not attend the preaching of the Gospel.

Romanos 10:16 In-Context

14 Como, pois, invocarão aquele em quem não creram? E como crerão naquele de quem não ouviram falar? E como ouvirão, se não houver quem pregue?

15 E como pregarão, se não forem enviados? Como está escrito: “Como são belos os pés dos que anunciam boas-novas!”

16 No entanto, nem todos os israelitas aceitaram as boas-novas. Pois Isaías diz: “Senhor, quem creu em nossa mensagem?”

17 Consequentemente, a fé vem por se ouvir a mensagem, e a mensagem é ouvida mediante a palavra de Cristo.

18 Mas eu pergunto: Eles não a ouviram? Claro que sim:“A sua voz ressoou por toda a terra,e as suas palavras até os confins do mundo”.

Footnotes

• [a]. Is 53.1