Romans 10:11

“ For the Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be confounded. ”

That is to say, it suffices to believe in Him who has fulfilled all, to be saved exactly as if one had fulfilled all himself. Here again the apostle quotes according to the LXX. (see on Romans 9:33). The most miserable of believers will not be deceived in his hope, if only he believes. The apostle here adds the word πᾶς, every one, whosoever, which was not authentic (Romans 9:33), but which is not wanting in any document in our verse. He might, indeed, deduce it with reason from the idea of the verse taken as a whole. Yet he does not add it by accident; for with the idea of the freeness of salvation he proceeds to connect that of its universality. This was the second point to which the ignorance of the Jews extended, and one of the two causes which rendered their rejection necessary for the execution of God's plan. Imagining that salvation was bound up with the fulfilment of the ordinances of the law, they monopolized it to their advantage, consenting to share it only with those of the Gentiles who would accept circumcision and the Mosaic dispensation, and thereby become members of the people of Israel. Through this conception, they came into conflict with the mind of God, which had in view the preaching of a free salvation to the whole world, and consequently the abolition of the legal system. This divine universalism, with its consequence, the free preaching of the gospel to all men, is the subject of the following passage. By introducing the word πᾶς, every one, whosoever (Romans 10:11), into the saying of Isaiah, the apostle announces this new idea which he proceeds to develop.