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Before men can believe, there must be something for them to believe. That something is the word of God, which we preach and they hear. It must be remembered that the word for “report” in <a href="/romans/10-16.htm" title="But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias said, Lord, who has believed our report?">Romans 10:16</a>, and for “hearing” in <a href="/romans/10-17.htm" title="So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.">Romans 10:17</a>, is the same, but with a slight difference of meaning. In the first place, both the act of hearer and preacher are involved; in the second place, only the act of the hearer.<p><span class= "bld">By the word of God.</span>—We should read here, without doubt, “by the word of <span class= "ital">Christ”</span>—<span class= "ital">i.e.,</span> by the gospel first delivered by Christ and propagated by His ministers.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/romans/10.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>10:12-17 There is not one God to the Jews, more kind, and another to the Gentiles, who is less kind; the Lord is a Father to all men. The promise is the same to all, who call on the name of the Lord Jesus as the Son of God, as God manifest in the flesh. All believers thus call upon the Lord Jesus, and none else will do so humbly or sincerely. But how should any call on the Lord Jesus, the Divine Saviour, who had not heard of him? And what is the life of a Christian but a life of prayer? It shows that we feel our dependence on him, and are ready to give up ourselves to him, and have a believing expectation of our all from him. It was necessary that the gospel should be preached to the Gentiles. Somebody must show them what they are to believe. How welcome the gospel ought to be to those to whom it was preached! The gospel is given, not only to be known and believed, but to be obeyed. It is not a system of notions, but a rule of practice. The beginning, progress, and strength of faith is by hearing. But it is only hearing the word, as the word of God that will strengthen faith.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/romans/10.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>So then faith cometh ... - This I take to be clearly the language of the objector. As if he had said, by the very quotation which you have made from Isaiah, it appears that a report was necessary. He did not condemn people for not believing what they had not heard; but he complains of those who did not believe a message actually delivered to them. Even by this passage, therefore, it seems that a message was necessary, that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the divine message. It could not be right, therefore, to condemn those who had not obeyed the gospel because they had not heard it; and hence, not right to make salvation dependent on a condition which was, by the arrangement of God, put beyond their power. The very quotation from Isaiah, therefore, goes to confirm the objection in <a href="/romans/10-14.htm">Romans 10:14</a>;15.<p>By hearing - Our translation has varied the expression here, which is the same in two places in the Greek: "Isaiah said, Who hath believed our report τῇ ἀκοῇ tē akoē? So then, you must admit that faith comes by that report ἐξ ἀκοῆς ex akoēs, and therefore this report or message is necessary." When it is said that faith cometh by hearing, it is not meant that all who hear actually believe, for that is not true; but that faith does not exist unless there is a message, or report, to be heard or believed. It cannot come otherwise than by such a message; in other words, unless there is something made known to be believed. And this shows us at once the importance of the message, and the fact that people are converted by the instrumentality of truth, and of truth only.<p>And hearing - And the report, or the message (η ̔ἀκοὴ hē akoē), is by the Word of God; that is, the message is sent by the command of God. It is his word, sent by his direction, and therefore if withheld by him, those who did not believe could not be blamed. The argument of the objector is, that God could not justly condemn people for not believing the gospel. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/romans/10.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>17. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God—"This is another confirmation of the truth that faith supposes the hearing of the Word, and this a commission to preach it."<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/romans/10.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> This is the conclusion of the former gradation, <span class="bld"><a href="/romans/10-14.htm" title="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?">Romans 10:14</a></span>. 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. <span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/romans/10-14.htm" title="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?">Romans 10:14</a>"</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">By the word of God; </span> 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 Gentiles, had good authority for what they did. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/romans/10.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>So then faith comes by hearing,.... That is, by preaching; for the word hearing is used in the same sense as in the preceding verse; and designs the report of the Gospel, or the preaching of the word, which is the means God makes use of, to convey faith into the hearts of his people; for preachers are ministers, or instruments, by whom others believe: <p>and hearing by the word of God; or "of Christ", as some copies read, and so do the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions; and intends either the holy Scriptures, which have God for their author, and Christ for the subject of them; and which furnish the men of God, or ministers of the Gospel, with proper materials to preach; and so hearing or preaching is by them, or else the command of God or Christ, which more properly signifies; and the sense is, that men preach the Gospel in obedience to the commandment of the everlasting God, and according to the orders, mission, and commission, warrant and authority, of the Lord Jesus Christ: and so these words are the conclusion, and sum of the whole; that as invocation is owing to faith, so faith to hearing, hearing to preaching, preaching to a mission; whence it follows, that it is the original will of God, to send forth his apostles and ministers, to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles, as well as to the Jews; that they hearing might believe, and believing call upon the Lord, and so be saved by him: it is a saying of the Jews, , "hearing depends upon the word" (e). <p>(e) Zohar in Deut. fol. 110. 3.<a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/romans/10.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2"><span class="cverse3">{11}</span> So then faith <i>cometh</i> by hearing, and hearing by the <span class="cverse3">{m}</span> word of God.</span><p>(11) A conclusion of the former discussion: we must ascend from faith to our calling, for by our calling we came to the testimony of our election.<p>(m) By God's commandment.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/meyer/romans/10.htm">Meyer's NT Commentary</a></div><a href="/romans/10-17.htm" title="So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.">Romans 10:17</a>. Inference from the prophetic passage, with the view of substantially recapitulating what was said in <a href="/romans/10-14.htm" title="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?">Romans 10:14</a>, and then pursuing the subject in <a href="/romans/10-18.htm" title="But I say, Have they not heard? Yes truly, their sound went into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.">Romans 10:18</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">ἀκοή</span>] the same as in <a href="/romans/10-16.htm" title="But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias said, Lord, who has believed our report?">Romans 10:16</a>, <span class="ital">the announcement</span>, which is heard; comp. on <a href="/john/12-38.htm" title="That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?">John 12:38</a>. <span class="ital">From this comes faith;</span> the heard preaching of the gospel brings about in men’s minds faith on Christ; <span class="ital">but preaching is brought about by God’s behest</span> (<a href="/luke/3-2.htm" title="Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.">Luke 3:2</a>; <a href="/matthew/4-4.htm" title="But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.">Matthew 4:4</a>; <a href="/hebrews/11-3.htm" title="Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.">Hebrews 11:3</a>), set to work by the fact that God commands preachers to their office. Rightly have Beza, Piscator, Semler, Cramer, Fritzsche, Glöckler, Tholuck, Baumgarten-Crusius, so understood <span class="greekheb">ῥῆμα Θεοῦ</span>. For the <span class="ital">ordinary</span> interpretation of it, also followed by Hofmann, as the <span class="ital">preached word of God</span>, is incorrect for this reason, that according to it <span class="greekheb">ῥῆμα Θεοῦ</span> in point of fact would not be different from <span class="greekheb">ἀκοή</span>; and this <span class="greekheb">ῥῆμα Θεοῦ</span> does not point back to <a href="/romans/10-8.htm" title="But what said it? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;">Romans 10:8</a>, but to <span class="greekheb">ἀποσταλῶσι</span> in <a href="/romans/10-15.htm" title="And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!">Romans 10:15</a>, as the remaining contents of the verse show, so that the signification <span class="ital">saying</span> obtains textually the more precise definition of its sense as <span class="ital">behest</span>. But when <span class="greekheb">ἀκοή</span> has been taken in two different senses in <a href="/romans/10-16.htm" title="But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias said, Lord, who has believed our report?">Romans 10:16</a> and <a href="/romans/10-17.htm" title="So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.">Romans 10:17</a>, so that in <a href="/romans/10-16.htm" title="But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias said, Lord, who has believed our report?">Romans 10:16</a> it signifies the preaching, but in <a href="/romans/10-17.htm" title="So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.">Romans 10:17</a> the <span class="ital">hearing</span> (Rückert, de Wette, Philippi, according to whom the preaching is to be analysed into its two <span class="ital">elements</span>, the hearing and the word of God, comp. Tholuck); or when in <span class="greekheb">διὰ ῥήματος Θεοῦ</span>, instead of “God’s word,” <span class="ital">divine revelation</span> has been substituted (Reiche, van Hengel, comp. Olshausen, who explains it as equivalent to <span class="greekheb">διὰ πνεύματος Θεοῦ</span>): these are just makeshifts in order to separate the incorrectly assumed notion of <span class="greekheb"><span class="bld"><span class="ital">ῬῆΜΑ ΘΕΟῦ</span></span></span> from that of <span class="greekheb"><span class="bld"><span class="ital">ἈΚΟΉ</span></span></span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">How could Paul infer also</span> <span class="greekheb">ἡ δὲ ἀκοὴ διὰ ῥήματος Θεοῦ</span> <span class="ital">from Isaiah?</span> Certainly not from the mere address <span class="greekheb">κύριε</span>, but rather from the whole attitude of the prophet towards God, as it is expressed in <span class="greekheb">κύριε</span> … <span class="greekheb">ἡμῶν</span>,—an attitude in which the prophet stands as the servant and ambassador of <span class="ital">God</span>, so that God thus appears as He on whose <span class="ital">saying, i.e</span>. on whose <span class="ital">command</span>, the <span class="greekheb">ἀκοή</span> is preached.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/egt/romans/10.htm">Expositor's Greek Testament</a></div><a href="/romans/10-17.htm" title="So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.">Romans 10:17</a>. This verse is really parenthetic: Paul’s logical mind cannot let slip the chance of showing how this quotation confirms the connection of ideas in <a href="/romans/10-14.htm" title="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?">Romans 10:14</a>. <span class="greekheb">ἄρα</span> suits a rapid passing inference better than the more deliberate <span class="greekheb">ἄρα οὖν</span> which is much more frequent in Romans. <span class="ital">Cf.</span> <a href="/1_corinthians/15-18.htm" title="Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.">1 Corinthians 15:18</a>, <a href="/2_corinthians/5-14.htm" title="For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:">2 Corinthians 5:14</a>, <a href="/galatians/2-17.htm" title="But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.">Galatians 2:17</a>. So then faith comes from a message (that which is received by the hearer of the Gospel), and the message <span class="greekheb">διὰ ῥήματος Χριστοῦ</span> through the Word concerning Christ. That which when heard is <span class="greekheb">ἀκοὴ</span> is when spoken <span class="greekheb">ῥῆμα</span>, and it is the condition of faith. The construction in <span class="greekheb">ῥῆμα Χριστοῦ</span> is the same as in <span class="greekheb">τὸ ῥῆμα τῆς πίστεως</span> in <a href="/romans/10-8.htm" title="But what said it? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;">Romans 10:8</a>. The words could not signify Christ’s command.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/romans/10.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">17</span>. <span class="ital">So then faith</span>, &c.] In this verse, which forms a parenthesis of thought, St Paul uses the quotation just made in a new reference; not now to the <span class="ital">fact of unbelief</span>, but to the <span class="ital">means of faith</span>. Isaiah’s words imply that the “report” of Messiah’s messengers was the appointed means for the conveyance of faith (“who hath <span class="ital">believed?</span>”) in Messiah. But this faith was (see above, <a href="/romans/10-11.htm" title="For the scripture said, Whoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.">Romans 10:11</a>,) for Gentiles as well as Jews. Therefore Gentiles as well as Jews must have the “report” <span class="ital">carried to them</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">hearing</span>] Same word in Gr. as that rendered <span class="bld">report</span> just above. See margin of E. V.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">by the word of God</span>] i.e. either “<span class="ital">by His order</span>,” or “<span class="ital">by</span> (the delivery of) <span class="ital">His message;</span>” “by the utterance of truth from and about Him.” The latter is on the whole more likely, both grammatically and by the context, where the necessity of evangelization is the main point.—A various reading, but not decisively supported, is “by the word of <span class="ital">Christ</span>.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/bengel/romans/10.htm">Bengel's Gnomen</a></div><a href="/romans/10-17.htm" title="So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.">Romans 10:17</a>.[118] <span class="greekheb">Ἄρα</span>, <span class="ital">then</span>) From the complaint of the prophet respecting the unbelief of his hearers, he infers, that the word of God and preaching, the proper source and handle of faith, were not wanting.—<span class="greekheb">ἐξ ἀκοῆς</span>) <span class="greekheb"><span class="bld"><span class="ital">ἈΚΟῊ</span></span></span>, <span class="ital">hearing</span>, and hence [the thing heard] <span class="ital">speech, word, preaching</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>[118] <span class="greekheb">Ἡμῶν</span>, [the report] of <span class="ital">us</span>) thy ambassadors, he means.—V. g.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Romans 10:17<a name="vws" id="vws"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/vws/romans/10.htm">Vincent's Word Studies</a></div>By hearing (ἐξ ἀκοῆς)<p>The same word as report, above, and in the same sense, that which is heard.<p>Word of God (ῥήματος Θεοῦ)<p>The best texts read of Christ. Probably not the Gospel, but Christ's word of command or commission to its preachers; thus taking up except they be sent (<a href="/romans/10-15.htm">Romans 10:15</a>), and emphasizing the authority of the message. 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