This recurrence to his great theme gives the Apostle's thought a direction once again towards the truth of the world-wide scope of the Gospel of Acceptance. In the midst of this _philo-judean_ section of the Epistle, on his way to say glorious things about abiding mercy and coming blessing for the Jews, he must pause again to assert the equal welcome of "the Greeks" to the Righteousness of God, and the foreshadow of this welcome in the Prophets. [Sidenote: Ver. 12.] =For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek= (wonderful antithesis to the "no distinction" of iii. 23!). =For the same Lord is Lord of all, wealthy to all who call upon Him,= who invoke Him, who appeal to Him, in the name of His own mercies in His redeeming Son. [Sidenote: Ver. 13.] =For= we have the prophecies with us here again. Joel, in a passage (ii. 32) full of Messiah, the passage with which the Spirit of Pentecost filled Peter's lips, speaks thus without a limit; ="Every one, whoever shall call upon the Lord's Name, shall be saved."= As he cites the words, and the thought rises upon him of this immense welcome to the sinful world, he feels afresh all the need of the heathen, and all the cruel narrowness of the Pharisaism which would shut them out from such an amplitude of blessing. [Sidenote: Ver. 14.] =How then can[175] they call on Him on whom they never[176] believed? But how can they believe= on Him =whom they never heard? But how can they hear= Him =apart from a proclaimer?= [Sidenote: Ver. 15.] =But how can they proclaim unless they are sent,= unless the Church which holds the sacred light sends her messengers out into the darkness? And in this again the Prophets are with the Christian Apostle, and against the loveless Judaist: =As it stands written= (Isai. lii. 7), ="How fair the feet of the gospellers of peace, of the gospellers of good!"[177]= Here, as an incident in this profound discussion, is given for ever to the Church of Christ one of the most distinct and stringent of her missionary "marching-orders." Let us recollect this, and lay it on our own souls, forgetting awhile, for we may, the problem of Israel and the exclusiveness of ancient Pharisaism. What is there here for us? What motive facts are here, ready to energize and direct the will of the Christian, and of the Church, in the matter of the "gospelling" of the world?