perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Sin breeds the quarrel between us and God; justification removes the guilt and so makes way for peace. God's benignity is such that immediately upon removing this obstacle, peace is made. This is friendship and loving-kindness, not merely a ceasing of enmity, and all of it comes through Christ, the blessed Mediator and Peacemaker between God and man.
AI summary
Commenting on Romans 5:1-5
patience worketh experience--rather, "proof," as the same word is rendered in Co2 2:9; Co2 13:3; Phi 2:22; that is, experimental evidence that we have "believed through grace." and experience--"proof." hope--"of the glory of God," as prepared for us. Thus have we hope in two distinct ways, and at two successive stages of the Christian life: first, immediately on believing, along with the sense of peace...
4. Patience, probation, etc. James, adopting a similar gradation, seems to follow a different order; for he says, that patience proceeds from probation: but the different meaning of the word is what will reconcile both. Paul takes probation for the experience which the faithful have of the sure protection of God, when by relying on his aid they overcome all difficulties, even when they experience...