Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 10:2

2. For I bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but . not according to knowledg. .

i. e. true and right knowledg. Though it be a warm, yet it is a blind Zeal. They know not the Will of God, or what that Righteousness is, which He will accept. They know not for what end the Law and Worship of God, under the Old Testament was Instituted. They knew not that Christ, in, and by whom, that Law is fulfilled.

That they have a fervent desire to maintain the Law of God, with all the Mosaical Rites and Ceremonies, as thinking thereby to promote the Glory of God

i. e. true and right knowledg. Though it be a warm, yet it is a blind Zeal. They know not the Will of God, or what that Righteousness is, which He will accept. They know not for what end the Law and Worship of God, under the Old Testament was Instituted. They knew not that Christ, in, and by whom, that Law is fulfilled.

i. e. I must Testify this of them, or of many of them,

Marginal references: Act. 21.20. & 22.3. Gal. 1.14. & 4.17. See Chap. 9.31.