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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Romans 10:18 - 10:18
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But I say, Have they not heard? - “Did they not hear?” Can Israel, through any region of his dispersion, plead ignorance of these glad tidings?
Yes, verily, their sound went - “their voice went out”
into all the earth, and their words unto the end of the world - These beautiful words are from Psa 19:4. Whether the apostle quoted them as in their primary intention applicable to his subject (as Olshausen, Alford, etc.), or only “used scriptural language to express his own ideas, as is done involuntarily almost by every preacher in every sermon” [Hodge], expositors are not agreed. But though the latter may seem the more natural since “the rising of the Sun of righteousness upon the world” (Mal 4:2), “the Dayspring from on high visiting us, giving light to them that sat in darkness, and guiding our feet into the way of peace” (Luk 1:78, Luk 1:79), must have been familiar and delightful to the apostle’s ear, we cannot doubt that the irradiation of the world with the beams of a better Sun by the universal diffusion of the Gospel of Christ, must have a mode of speaking quite natural, and to him scarcely figurative.