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  • From: "John Wilking" <johnwilking AT hotmail.com>
  • To: corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Romans 10:1-4
  • Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:18:48 PDT



W.S. Campbell,

You say that the issue of understanding is left open at this point. Are you thinking of "at this point" in chapter 10? I ask this because Paul seems to continue his argument with an answer in 11:8, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes to see not and ears to hear not, down to this very day."

John C. Wilking

From: "W.S. Campbell" <WS.Campbell AT lamp.ac.uk>
Reply-To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: [corpus-paul] Re: Romans 10:1-4
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:26:18 +0100

The discussion about knowing or understanding God's ways is explicit in Rom
10:19-21; note that the issue as to whether or not Israel has heard is
answered but whether or not she has understood seems to be left open at
this point -God's hands are stretched out still.Note also the verbs used
here and in 10:3.Th.Zahn, Der Brief des Paulus an die Roemer. 3.Aufl.,
Leipzig 1925,(pp.491f.) claims that the issue is not so much to do with
Israel's unbelief as with the order of events in the divine economy of
salvation; he takes the 'first' with the preceding clause ie did "Israel
not believe first ?" Leenhardt says of Zahn's interpretation, "Grammar
supports this but the meaning loses",(Romans p.275).There is a good
discussion of this issue in J.Munck, Christ and Israel, Philadelphia 1967.


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