It is not my assertion.
Our FATHER GOD makes the connection through the Spirit.
GOD originally gave this to Moses to share. When Moses shared it he shared it in the present tense. Paul through GOD reminds his readers of this text. These readers would have been the Jews from the dispersion and the Gentile converts in Rome
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Divine utterances was posted in the post you responded to not divine utterances. This is due to respect to the FATHER and HIS Christ.
Divine utterances is how the Spirit's use of the word "Word' should be understood in verse eight.
This also should be capitalized because it is referencing to Christ. It is He; the Word that comes into our hearts and mouths that we do it. This is the Faith in which we stand through.
Here is how the word "word" is defined in Thayers' Lexicon.
- Original: ῥῆμα
- Transliteration: Rhema
- Phonetic: hray'-mah
- Definition:
1. that which is or has been uttered by the living voice, thing spoken, word
a. any sound produced by the voice and having definite meaning
b. speech, discourse
1. what one has said
c. a series of words joined together into a sentence (a declaration of one's mind made in words)
1. an utterance
2. a saying of any sort as a message, a narrative 1c
d. concerning some occurrence
2. subject matter of speech, thing spoken of
a. so far forth as it is a matter of narration
b. so far as it is a matter of command
c. a matter of dispute, case at law
Here is the text in verse 10:6-8 with minimal commentary.
But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ (Word) down from above
Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ (Word) again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word (Christ) is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
(Rom 10:6-8 KJV)
As was said this is a quote from Deut. 30.The people reading Romans would have known this and would have looked it up because at the time it was part of the Bible they had. Here is how it is given.
If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
(Deu 30:10-14 KJV)
This was and is Holy Scripture. They would have cross reference the Letter and the Holy Writ and would have concluded that:
the LORD our GOD will circumcise our hearts and the hearts of our seed. For righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ (Anointed; GOD's commands and statutes written in the Book of the Law. In other words the Word; the Divine utterances) down from above
Or, Who shall descend into the deep?
(that is, to bring up Christ (Anointed; GOD's commands and statutes written in the Book of the Law. In other words the Word; the Divine utterances) again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word
(the Divine utterances; Christ the Anointed; GOD's commands and statutes written in the Book of the Law.) is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart:
(that thou mayest do it) that is the word of faith, which we preach. And that my friend is the Faith movement in which we preach. And that is the Gospel!