ACC ~ Romans 10 v21

UNDERSTANDING THE PASSAGE. ORIGEN: The Hebrew text does not contain the words and contrary, but here the apostle has followed the Septuagint and quoted the passage as they understood it. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

SHELTERING THE DISOBEDIENT. JEROME: The hands of the Lord lifted up to heaven were not begging for help but were sheltering us, his miserable creatures. HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 68.

HELD OUT MY HANDS. AMBROSIASTER: Here Israel refers to the Israel of the flesh, those who are children of Abraham but not according to faith. For the true Israel is spiritual and sees God by believing in him. “All day long” means “always.”

This passage may also refer to the Savior, who held out his hands on the cross to plead forgiveness for those who were killing him.COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

DIODORE: It appears from the holding out of his hands that God is calling the people to himself. It is also a sign pointing toward the form of the cross. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

CHRYSOSTOM: Throughout the period of the old dispensation, God held out his hands to the Jews to call them and draw them to himself. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 18.

PELAGIUS: The same prophet who made promises of this sort to the Gentiles issues similar warnings here to the Jews, so that you may know that both were foretold. The holding out of the hands means, allegorically, the cross. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.