ACC ~ Romans 10 v8

THE WORD IS NEAR YOU. ORIGEN: Here we have to bear in mind the important distinction between what is possible in theory and what is realized in practice. … Christ, who is the Word of God, is potentially near us and near everyone, but this is only realized in practice when I confess with my mouth that Christ is Lord and when I believe in my heart that God has raised him from the dead. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

ORIGEN: By this Paul indicates that Christ is in the heart of all men by virtue of his being the Word or reason [logos] embedded in all things by sharing in which all men are rational. ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 1.3.6.

FAITH NOT FOREIGN TO OUR NATURE. AMBROSIASTER: This is said in Deuteronomy [30:14] in order to show that belief [in Christ] is not all that foreign to our mind or to our nature. Even though we cannot see him with our eyes, what we believe is not out of harmony with the nature of our minds and our way of speaking. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

PELAGIUS: Historically speaking, Moses said this about the law, but the apostle applies it to Christ, because the law was neither in heaven nor in the abyss. Or it may mean that Paul is ordering them to meditate constantly on the lawso that they may find Christ in it.The “word of faith which we preach” is the New Testament. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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