Teks -- Romans 5:4 (NET)

5:4 and endurance, character, and character, hope.

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Robertson: Rom 5:4 - Knowing

Knowing ( eidotes ).

Second perfect participle of eidon (oida ), giving the reason for the previous exhortation to glory in tribulations. He gives a linked chain, one linking to the other (tribulation thlipsis , patience hupomonē , experience dokimē , hope elpis ) running into Rom 5:5. On dokimē , see note on 2Co 2:9.

Vincent: Rom 5:4 - Experience

Experience ( δοκιμήν )

Wrong. The word means either the process of trial, proving , as 2Co 8:2, or the result of trial, approvedness , Phi 2:22. Here it can only be the latter: tried integrity , a state of mind which has stood the test. The process has already been expressed by tribulation . Rev. renders probation , which might be defended on the ground of English classical usage. Thus Shakespeare:

" And of the truth herein

This present object made probation.

" Hamlet ," i ., 1

Jeremy Taylor: " When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, He gave probation that He intended that all should prophecy and preach."

But probation has come to be understood, almost universally, of the process of trial. The more accurate rendering is proof or approval .

Wesley: Rom 5:4

And patience works more experience of the sincerity of our grace, and of God's power and faithfulness.

JFB: Rom 5:3-4 - we glory in tribulation also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience

Patience is the quiet endurance of what we cannot but wish removed, whether it be the withholding of promised good (Rom 8:25), or the continued experience of positive ill (as here). There is indeed a patience of unrenewed nature, which has something noble in it, though in many cases the offspring of pride, if not of something lower. Men have been known to endure every form of privation, torture, and death, without a murmur and without even visible emotion, merely because they deemed it unworthy of them to sink under unavoidable ill. But this proud, stoical hardihood has nothing in common with the grace of patience--which is either the meek endurance of ill because it is of God (Job 1:21-22; Job 2:10), or the calm waiting for promised good till His time to dispense it come (Heb 10:36); in the full persuasion that such trials are divinely appointed, are the needed discipline of God's children, are but for a definite period, and are not sent without abundant promises of "songs in the night." If such be the "patience" which "tribulation worketh," no wonder that

JFB: Rom 5:4 - patience worketh experience

Rather, "proof," as the same word is rendered in 2Co 2:9; 2Co 13:3; Phi 2:22; that is, experimental evidence that we have "believed through grace."

JFB: Rom 5:4 - and experience

"proof."

JFB: Rom 5:4 - 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 and abiding access to God (Rom 5:1); next, after the reality of this faith has been "proved," particularly by the patient endurance of trials sent to test it. We first get it by looking away from ourselves to the Lamb of God; next by looking into or upon ourselves as transformed by that "looking unto Jesus." In the one case, the mind acts (as they say) objectively; in the other, subjectively. The one is (as divines say) the assurance of faith; the other, the assurance of sense.

Clarke: Rom 5:4 - And patience, experience

And patience, experience - Δὀκιμεν, Full proof, by trial, of the truth of our religion, the solidity of our Christian state, and the faithfulness of our God. In such cases we have the opportunity of putting our religion to the test; and, by every such test, it receives the deeper sterling stamp. The apostle uses here also a metaphor taken from the purifying, refining, and testing of silver and gold

Clarke: Rom 5:4 - Experience, hope

Experience, hope - For we thus calculate, that he who has supported us in the past will support us in those which may yet come; and as we have received so much spiritual profiting by means of the sufferings through which we have already passed, we may profit equally by those which are yet to come: and this hope prevents us from dreading coming trials; we receive them as means of grace, and find that all things work together for good to them that love God.

Calvin: Rom 5:4 - Patience, probation

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, whilst in patiently enduring they stand firm, how much avails the power of the Lord, which he has promised to be always present with his people. James takes the same word for tribulation itself, according to the common usage of Scripture; for by these God proves and tries his servants: and they are often called trials. ¹⁵⁵

According then to the present passage, we then only make advances in patience as we ought, when we regard it as having been continued to us by God’s power, and thus entertain hope as to the future, that God’s favor, which has ever succored us in our necessities, will never be wanting to us. Hence he subjoins, that from probation arises hope; for ungrateful we should be for benefits received, except the recollection of them confirms our hope as to what is to come.

TSK: Rom 5:4 - patience // and experience

patience : Rom 15:4; 2Co 1:4-6, 2Co 4:8-12, 2Co 6:9, 2Co 6:10; Jam 1:12; 1Pe 1:6, 1Pe 1:7, 1Pe 5:10

and experience : Jos 10:24, Jos 10:25; 1Sa 17:34-37; Psa 27:2, Psa 27:3, Psa 42:4, Psa 42:5, Psa 71:14, Psa 71:18-24; 2Co 4:8-10; 2Ti 4:16-18

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Poole: Rom 5:4 - And patience, experience // And experience, hope

And patience, experience viz. of God’ s sustentation and care of us, and of his faithfulness in fulfilling his promises, Psa 91:15 Isa 43:2 2Co 1:4,5 ; as also of our own sincerity, and strength to endure and persevere, Mat 13:21 .

And experience, hope i.e. of the glory of God, as before in Rom 3:2 , or hope of further mercy and seasonable deliverance. Believers find and feel that God hath delivered them, and doth deliver them, and in him they trust and hope that he will still deliver them.

PBC: Rom 5:4

2Pe 1:6 tells us to add to our knowledge temperance and to temperance patience. According to Ro 5:4, constructive experience comes as a result of patience. Lack of patience provides experiences but not pleasant, God-honoring ones -not the kind spoken of here. Here are the stepping-stones leading to constructive experience which Paul says they gloried in -tribulation, which works the peaceful fruit of patience -patience which works experience -experience, which produces hope. Hope is that precious fruit that is anchored to that within the vale {Heb 6:19} and maketh not ashamed {Ro 5:5} Without hope within the child of God, there is no peace. There is that lack of godliness which leaves us uncontented. Without contentment we lack proper fruit-bearing. We are lacking that great gain that godliness with contentment produces. {1Ti 6:6}

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There is a great appeal when someone has had a faithful experience in Christian service and under present trial, grief and stress and is being pulled at the very fabric of the soul to turn back -there is great importance in reminding that person of the testimony of their own life and their own experience. Look back to that time when you first received the light of God shed in your hearts to see His truth and His blessing. Look back upon that time when you suffered the loss of everything and you gladly were willing to face it for the sake and the name of your Lord. Learn from that experience, take courage in it in your present trial.

Gill: Rom 5:4 - And patience experience // and experience, hope

And patience experience,.... As tribulations tend to exercise and increase patience, so patience being exercised and increased, enlarges the saints' stock and fund of experience; of the love and grace of God communicated to them at such seasons; of his faithfulness in fulfilling his promises; of his power in supporting them; and of their own frailty and weakness; and so are taught humility, thankfulness, and resignation to the will of God:

and experience, hope; hope is a gift of God's grace, and is implanted in regeneration, but abounds, increases, and becomes more strong and lively by experience of the love, grace, mercy, power, and faithfulness of God.