Romans 10:12-21

Paul has justified the matter of his preaching, salvation by grace; he now justifies its extension. Not that, as Baur, Holsten, etc., think, he wishes thereby to remove the scruples of the Judeo-Christian conscience against his apostleship among the Gentiles; but as the context says clearly enough to indicate the second point in regard to which the Jews have showed themselves ignorant (Romans 10:4) as to the plan of God, and because of which they have brought on themselves the rejection with which they are overtaken. When man would put himself against the plan of God, God does not stop; He sets aside the obstacle. Such is the connection of ideas which leads to the following passage.