Romans 10:8

The word More precisely, the utterance; i.e. of the terms of the covenant. Alike the elder and later Covenants were not obscure enigmas, but could be recited by human lips and assented to as "just and good" by human hearts.

that is, &c. See last note but one on Romans 10:6. Here again St Paul sees in the words of Moses a divinely-meant adaptation to the case of the New Covenant as well as to that of the Old.

the word of faith the utterance of faith; or, to expand the brief phrase, "the statement of terms of justification by faith;" the message whose burden is Faith.