The words to which I should like to call attention this evening are to be found in the

Epistle to the Romans in chapter 10, reading from verse 18 to verse 21, the end of the chapter.

But I say, have they not heard?

Yes, verily their sound went into all the earth and their words and to the ends of the

world.

But I say, did not Israel, no?

First Moses said, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish

nation I will anger you. But Asaius is very bold and, Seth, I was found of them that sought me not.

I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.

But to Israel, he said, all day long I have stretched forth my hands

unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

Now we are considering this last subsection in this tenth chapter of the epistle to the

Romans, and I was reminding you last Friday night that it is a kind of summing up of the

immediately preceding argument and at the same time a summing up of the immediately preceding argument, and at the same time a summing up

of the argument of the entire chapter. Now, he introduces it with this formula, I say. He puts up

a case, and he proceeds to answer it, and he does so, obviously, to put it in a dramatic manner, to make it impressive in order

that he can deal with the argument in a final manner.

Now I'm suggesting that we can subdivide this statement into two sections.

The apostle here, you see, is showing how the whole position of the Jew, as unbelievers,

as those who are outside the kingdom of God, as rejectors of the gospel, is something which is

quite indefensive and utterly inexcusable. That's what he's setting out to do. He began

doing it at the beginning of chapter 9. He'll go on in a sense in chapter 11, but here he rarely

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