SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:17
Luego la fe es por el oír; y el oído, por la palabra del Cristo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Romans 10:17
Verse 17. So then faith cometh by hearing] Preaching the Gospel is the ordinary means of salvation; faith in Christ is the result of hearing the word, the doctrine of God preached. Preaching, God sends; if heard attentively, faith will be produced; and if they believe the report, the arm of the Lord will be revealed in their salvation.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. So then faith comes by hearing , etc..] That is, by preaching; for the word hearing is used in the same sense as in the preceding verse; and designs the report of the Gospel, or the preaching of the word, which is the means God makes use of, to convey faith into the hearts of his people; for preachers are ministers, or instruments, by whom others believe: and hearing by the word of God ; or of Christ, as some copies read, and so do the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions; and intends either the holy Scriptures, which have God for their author, and Christ for the subject of them; and which furnish the men of God, or ministers of the Gospel, with proper materials to preach; and so hearing or preaching is by them, or else the command of God or Christ, which rhma more properly signifies; and the sense is, that men preach the Gospel in obedience to the commandment of the everlasting God, and according to the orders, mission, and commission, warrant and authority, of the Lord Jesus Christ: and so these words are the conclusion, and sum of the whole; that as invocation is owing to faith, so faith to hearing, hearing to preaching, preaching to a mission; whence it follows, that it is the original will of God, to send forth his apostles and ministers, to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles, as well as to the Jews; that they hearing might believe, and believing call upon the Lord, and so be saved by him: it is a saying of the Jews, aylt rwbdb h[ym , hearing depends upon the word f197 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-17 - There is not one God to the Jews, more kind, and another to the Gentiles, who is less kind; the Lord is a Father to all men. The promise is the same to all, who call on the name of the Lord Jesus a the Son of God, as God manifest in the flesh. All believers thus cal upon the Lord Jesus, and none else will do so humbly or sincerely. But how should any call on the Lord Jesus, the Divine Saviour, who had no heard of him? And what is the life of a Christian but a life of prayer It shows that we feel our dependence on him, and are ready to give u ourselves to him, and have a believing expectation of our all from him It was necessary that the gospel should be preached to the Gentiles Somebody must show them what they are to believe. How welcome the gospel ought to be to those to whom it was preached! The gospel i given, not only to be known and believed, but to be obeyed. It is not system of notions, but a rule of practice. The beginning, progress, an strength of faith is by hearing. But it is only hearing the word, a the word of God that will strengthen faith.
Greek Textus Receptus
αρα 686 PRT η 3588 T-NSF πιστις 4102 N-NSF εξ 1537 PREP ακοης 189 N-GSF η 3588 T-NSF δε 1161 CONJ ακοη 189 N-NSF δια 1223 PREP ρηματος 4487 N-GSN θεου 2316 N-GSM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
17. By hearing (ex akohv). The same word as report, above, and in the same sense, that which is heard.Word of God (rhmatov Qeou). The best texts read of Christ. Probably not the Gospel, but Christ's word of command or commission to its preachers; thus taking up except they be sent (ver. 15), and emphasizing the authority of the message. Belief comes through the message, and the message through the command of Christ.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
10:17 {By the word of Christ} (dia rematos cristou). "By the word about Christ" (objective genitive).
