“And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”
And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written, 'How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!' — Isaiah 52:7 is cited: the herald (ὁ εὐαγγελιζόμενος, ho euangelizomenos, "the gospel-proclaimer") must be ἀποστέλλω (apostellō, "sent"). The beautiful feet belong to those bearing the gospel. Mission is God's commissioning.
Church Fathers on Romans 10:15
Here again he takes from them all excuse. For since he had said, “I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,” and that “being ignorant of God's righteousness, they submitted not themselves” to it: he next shows, that for this ignorance itself they were punishable before God. This he does not say indeed so, but he makes it good by carrying on his discourse in the way of question, and so convicting them more clearly, by framing the whole…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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