Romanos 10
Origen of Alexandria · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Romanos 10:2
If someone has a love for God but does not know that love must be patient, kind, not envious, not acting wrongly, not puffed up, not ambitious, not seeking its own and so on; if he does not have these things in his love but only loves God in his emotions, then it may rightly be said of him that he has a love for God but not according to knowledge. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 10:4
Christ is the end of the law, but only for those who believe. Those who do not believe and who do not have Christ do not have the end of the law and therefore cannot come to justification. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 10:5
Moses did not say that the man who practices the righteousness of the law will live forever but only that he will live by it in this life. For Christ is the end of the law, as the apostle says, and without Christ it is impossible to fulfill the righteousness of the law. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 10:7
We are not to think that Christ is in heaven in such a way as to be absent from the depths.… Furthermore, if someone should go down into the depths in his mind and thought, thinking that Christ is contained there and that he can somehow be called back from the dead … let him realize that he ought to think of Christ as he thinks of the Word, the truth and the righteousness of God. These things are not limited to a particular place but are present everywhere, nor can they be called up from the lower depths, but they can be grasped only by the mind and the intellect. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 10:8
By this Paul indicates that Christ is in the heart of all men by virtue of his being the Word or reason [logos] embedded in all things by sharing in which all men are rational. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 1.3.6
Romanos 10:8
Here we have to bear in mind the important distinction between what is possible in theory and what is realized in practice.… Christ, who is the Word of God, is potentially near us and near everyone, but this is only realized in practice when I confess with my mouth that Christ is Lord and when I believe in my heart that God has raised him from the dead. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 10:11
If no one who believes in him will be put to shame, it is clear that those who sin will be, just as Adam sinned and was ashamed and hid himself. So whoever incurs the shame of sin obviously does not believe. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 10:15
It seems to me that there is some difficulty with this [verse]. For if we understand it to mean that nobody preaches because nobody is sent … then it would appear that the reason they are not saved is ultimately the fault of Christ for not having sent them.But it is better for us to understand this as follows. It is as if the apostle were saying: "We, the heralds and preachers of Christ, would not be able to preach, nor would we have any power to proclaim, if he who sent us were not also present with us. So if you do not want to listen to us when we preach, that is your problem, if hearing you do not believe, and not believing, you do not call on him, and not calling on him, you are not saved." The beauty of the preacher's feet must be understood in a spiritual, not in a physical sense. For it would make a mockery of the apostle's meaning to suppose that the feet of the evangelists, which can be seen with the physical eye, should be regarded as beautiful in themselves.… Only those feet which walk in the way of life can make this claim. Given that Christ said that he is the way, you should understand that it is the feet of those evangelists who walk according to that way which deserve to be called beautiful. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 10:16
Not all the Gentiles have believed the gospel nor have all the Jews, but many have, and many more Gentiles have believed than Jews. In this passage, "who has believed really means few have believed." … Isaiah here is speaking prophetically in the person of the apostles, to whom the work of preaching was entrusted. It was they, when they saw how few believers there were in Israel, who exclaimed: "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?" — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 10:18
This passage, taken from Psalm 19[: 4], must refer to the Gentiles. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 10:19
Having just spoken of the Gentiles Paul goes on, as is his custom, to talk about Israel as well. His intention is to demonstrate by suitable quotations that Israel has no excuse for its rejection of Christ.In this passage it is true that Moses the friend of God wanted to attach blame to the people of God, but he also foresaw in the Spirit that if someone wants to be wise in this world he must become foolish, in order to be wise in the sight of God. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 10:20
From the context, it is obvious that this must refer to the Gentiles. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 10:21
The Hebrew text does not contain the words and contrary, but here the apostle has followed the Septuagint and quoted the passage as they understood it. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS