to entitle · verb — aorist middle subjunctive, 3rd person singular
name
ὄνομαonoma
G3686
a "name" (literally or figuratively) (authority · noun — accusative singular neuter
Lord
κυρίουkuriou
G2962
supreme in authority · noun — genitive singular masculine, a title
saved
σωθήσεται.¶sōthēsetai
G4982
to save · verb — future passive indicative, 3rd person singular
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Joel 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be…
Acts 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Romans 10:12–end
The first words express the design of the apostle through these verses, that there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, but they stand upon the same level in point of acceptance with God. In Jesus Christ there is neither Greek nor Jews, Col 3:11. God doth not save any nor reject any because they are Jews, nor because they are Greeks, but doth equally accept both upon gospel terms: There is no difference. For the proof of this he urges two arguments: -
I. That God is the same to all: The same Lord over all is rich unto all. There is not one God to the Jews who is more kind, and another to the Gentiles who is less kind; but he is the same to all, a common father to all mankind. When he…
For--saith the scripture
whosoever--The expression is emphatic, "Everyone whosoever"
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved-- (Joe 2:32); quoted also by Peter, in his great Pentecostal sermon (Act 2:21), with evident application to Christ.
Adam Clarke on Romans 10:13
For whosoever shall call, etc. - Nor shall any one who hears this doctrine of salvation, and credits it as he is commanded, be permitted to pray or supplicate the throne of grace in vain: for the Prophet Joel hath declared, Joe 2:32 : Whosoever shall call upon, invoke, the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of sinners, shall be saved - shall have his guilt pardoned, his heart purified; and if he abide in the faith, rooted and grounded in him, showing forth the virtues of him who was called him out of darkness into his marvellous light, he shall be saved with all the power of an eternal life.
"Believing in Christ, or God, Rom 10:11, and calling upon God, Rom 10:12-14, are in effect the…
For whosoever shall call upon the name the Lord,.... This testimony is taken out of Joel 2:32 and is brought to prove the truth of what the apostle had just suggested, that all that call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, will find him rich and plenteous in mercy, and ready to dispense his grace and salvation to them: such
shall be saved; be they who they will, whether Jews or Gentiles; not with a temporal salvation only, but with a spiritual and eternal one; for the words of the prophet refer to Gospel times, as the context shows, and is cited and applied thereunto by the Apostle Peter, Acts 2:16; besides, the deliverance and salvation Joel speaks of, is of a "remnant whom the Lord sh…
The Church Fathers
By faith in Jesus Christ is granted to us both possession of the little beginning of salvation and its perfecting, which we await in hope.
God himself, when he was seen by Moses, said to him: "My name is the Lord." This is the Son of God, who is said to be both a messenger and God. The Son is not to be confused with the Father from whom all things come, but is to be acknowledged as the One through whom all things come and to whom all things belong. He is called God because the Father and the Son are one. He is also called an angel, because he was sent by the Father to announce the promised salvation.
"For everyone, whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved." Yet he did not say that he bestows these riches on all men, but on all whoever shall call upon his name. But here too a question similar to the earlier ones seems to arise. For not all who in any manner whatsoever call upon the name of the Lord can be saved, even if they have not done works worthy of the name they invoke — especially since the Wisdom of God also says in Proverbs: "It shall come to pass that when you call upon me, I will not hear you." In which it seems to me that Wisdom exhorts and urges those who wish to be saved, that they should call upon Wisdom quickly and not delay or defer, lest perhaps, when the appointed time has passed — that is, the time in which there is opportunity for repentance — they should call too late thereafter, where there is no place for repentance. And hence she says: "You shall call upon me, and I will not hear you." Yet this saying which the Apostle sets down, that is, "Whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved," is written in the prophet Joel in this manner: "And I will give portents in the heaven above, and on the earth below: blood, and fire, and the vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. And it shall be: whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Yet it seems to me that something great is designated in the divine Scriptures under this name of "calling upon." For it is not of just any men, but of great and outstanding ones, that it is written that "Enos first hoped to call upon the name of the Lord"; and in the Psalms: "Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among those who call upon his name. They called upon the Lord, and he heard them: in the pillar of cloud he spoke to them."
Dictionary and topics
Christ Is God · As Lord of all — As Lord of all
Justification · 23:6; — 23:6;
Penitent · PROMISES TO — PROMISES TO
Religion · TRUE — TRUE
Seekers · 5:4-6,8,14;8:12; — 5:4-6,8,14;8:12;
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
Romans 10:11-13
11. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
11. Dicit enim scriptura, onmis qui credit in eum non pudefiet:
12. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
12. Non enim est distinctio Iudaei et Graeci; unus enim Dominus omnium, dives in omnes qui invocant eum;
13. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
13. Quisquis enim invocaverit nomen Domini salvus erit.
11. For the Scripture saith, etc. Having stated the reasons why God had justly repudiated the Jews, he returns to prove the calling of the Gentiles, which is the other part of t…
Paul quotes Joel 2:32, where the Lord in Hebrew is Yahweh, the personal name of God (see Exod 3:15). However, as Rom 10:12 makes clear, the Lord in Romans is Jesus Christ. This verse shows that Christians from the time of the apostles have associated Jesus with God.
