and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
5. Hope maketh not ashamed, etc.; Chalmers observes, that there are two hopes mentioned in this passage, — the hope of faith in the second verse, and the hope of experience in this. “The hope of the fourth verse,” he says, “is distinct from and posterior to the hope of the second; and it also appears to be derived from another source.
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
And hope maketh not ashamed,.... As a vain hope does, things not answering to expectation, it deceives, and is lost; but the grace of hope is of such a nature, as that it never fails deceives, or disappoints: it neither makes ashamed, nor have persons that have any reason to be ashamed of it; neither of the grace itself, which is a good one; nor...