Romans Chapter 10 Vs. 7

 

The Message of Salvation to All

Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) Rom 10:7

into the deep?... Greek: abussos, bottomless, unbounded by any definite known limits. See Rev. 20:3. Christ did descend into the lower parts of the earth to liberate the righteous dead and take them to heaven with Him when He ascended on high (Mat. 12:40; Eph. 4:8-10; Heb. 2:14-15).

His point is that the righteousness of faith does not require some impossible odyssey through the universe to find Christ.

Deut. 30:11-14 “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.”

In effect, Paul indicated that the same truth applied to his generation, with the added fact that Christ had come in the flesh (John 1:14) and had been resurrected. Therefore there was no need for anyone to ask to bring Christ down (in His Incarnation) or to bring Christ up from the dead; He had already come and had been resurrected.