Teks -- Romans 5:5 (NET)

5:5 And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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Robertson: Rom 5:5 - Hath been shed abroad

Hath been shed abroad ( ekkechutai ).

Perfect passive indicative of ekcheō , to pour out. "Has been poured out"in our hearts.

Vincent: Rom 5:5 - Maketh not ashamed

Maketh not ashamed ( οὑ καταισχύνει )

Mostly in Paul; elsewhere only in Luk 13:17; 1Pe 2:6; 1Pe 3:16. Rev., putteth not to shame , thus giving better the strong sense of the word, to disgrace or dishonor .

Vincent: Rom 5:5 - Is shed abroad

Is shed abroad ( ἐκκέχυται )

Rev. renders the perfect tense; hath been shed abroad. Lit., poured out . Compare Tit 3:6; Act 2:33; Act 10:45. See on Jud 1:11.

Wesley: Rom 5:5 - Hope shameth us not

That is, gives us the highest glorying. We glory in this our hope, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts - The divine conviction of God's love to us, and that love to God which is both the earnest and the beginning of heaven.

Wesley: Rom 5:5 - By the Holy Ghost

The efficient cause of all these present blessings, and the earnest of those to come.

JFB: Rom 5:5 - And hope maketh not ashamed

Putteth not to shame, as empty hopes do.

JFB: Rom 5:5 - because the love of God

That is, not "our love to God," as the Romish and some Protestant expositors (following some of the Fathers) represent it; but clearly "God's love to us"--as most expositors agree.

JFB: Rom 5:5 - is shed abroad

Literally, "poured forth," that is, copiously diffused (compare Joh 7:38; Tit 3:6).

JFB: Rom 5:5 - by the Holy Ghost which is

Rather, "was."

JFB: Rom 5:5 - given unto us

That is, at the great Pentecostal effusion, which is viewed as the formal donation of the Spirit to the Church of God, for all time and for each believer. (The Holy Ghost is here first introduced in this Epistle.) It is as if the apostle had said, "And how can this hope of glory, which as believers we cherish, put us to shame, when we feel God Himself, by His Spirit given to us, drenching our hearts in sweet, all-subduing sensations of His wondrous love to us in Christ Jesus?" This leads the apostle to expatiate on the amazing character of that love.

Clarke: Rom 5:5 - And hope maketh not ashamed

And hope maketh not ashamed - A hope that is not rationally founded will have its expectation cut off; and then shame and confusion will be the portion of its possessor. But our hope is of a different kind; it is founded on the goodness and truth of God; and our religious experience shows us that we have not misapplied it; nor exercised it on wrong or improper objects

Clarke: Rom 5:5 - Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts

Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts - We have the most solid and convincing testimony of God’ s love to us, by that measure of it which he has communicated to our hearts. There, εκκεχυται, it is poured out, and diffused abroad; filling, quickening, and invigorating all our powers and faculties. This love is the spring of all our actions; it is the motive of our obedience; the principle through which we love God, we love him because he first loved us; and we love him with a love worthy of himself, because it springs from him: it is his own; and every flame that rises from this pure and vigorous fire must be pleasing in his sight: it consumes what is unholy; refines every passion and appetite; sublimes the whole, and assimilates all to itself. And we know that this is the love of God; it differs widely from all that is earthly and sensual. The Holy Ghost comes with it; by his energy it is diffused and pervades every part; and by his light we discover what it is, and know the state of grace in which we stand. Thus we are furnished to every good word and work; have produced in us the mind that was in Christ; are enabled to obey the pure law of our God in its spiritual sense, by loving him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; and our neighbor, any and every soul of man, as ourselves. This is, or ought to be, the common experience of every genuine believer; but, in addition to this, the primitive Christians had, sometimes, the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit. These were then needful; and were they needful now, they would be again communicated.

Calvin: Rom 5:5 - Hope maketh not ashamed, === etc.; ¹⁵⁶ that is, it regards salvation as most certain. It hence appears, that the Lord tries us by adversities for this end, — that our salvation may thereby be gradually advanced. Those evils then cannot render us miserable, which do in a manner promote our happiness. And thus is proved what he had said, that the godly have reasons for glorying in the midst of their afflictions.

===For the love of God

5.Hope maketh not ashamed, === etc.; ¹⁵⁶ that is, it regards salvation as most certain. It hence appears, that the Lord tries us by adversities for this end, — that our salvation may thereby be gradually advanced. Those evils then cannot render us miserable, which do in a manner promote our happiness. And thus is proved what he had said, that the godly have reasons for glorying in the midst of their afflictions.

===For the love of God, etc. I do not refer this only to the last sentence, but to the whole of the preceding passage. I therefore would say, — that by tribulations we are stimulated to patience, and that patience finds an experiment of divine help, by which we are more encouraged to entertain hope; for however we may be pressed and seem to be nearly consumed, we do not yet cease to feel God’s favor towards us, which affords the richest consolation, and much more abundant than when all things happen prosperously. For as that happiness, which is so in appearance, is misery itself, when God is adverse to and displeased with us; so when he is propitious, even calamities themselves will surely be turned to a prosperous and a joyful issue. Seeing all things must serve the will of the Creator, who, according to his paternal favor towards us, (as Paul declares in the eighth chapter,) overrules all the trials of the cross for our salvation, this knowledge of divine love towards us is instilled into our hearts to the Spirit of God; for the good things which God has prepared for his servants are hid from the ears and the eyes and the minds of men, and the Spirit alone is he who can reveal them. And the word diffused, is very emphatical; for it means that the revelation of divine love towards us is so abounding that it fills our hearts; and being thus spread through every part of them, it not only mitigates sorrow in adversities, but also, like a sweet seasoning, it renders tribulations to be loved by us. ¹⁵⁷

He says further, that the Spirit is given, that is, bestowed through the gratuitous goodness of God, and not conferred for our merits; according to what [Augustine] has well observed, who, though he is mistaken in his view of the love of God, gives this explanation, — that we courageously bear adversities, and are thus confirmed in our hope, because we, having been regenerated by the Spirit, do love God. It is indeed a pious sentiment, but not what Paul means: for love is not to be taken here in an active but a passive sense. And certain it is, that no other thing is taught by Paul than that the true fountain of all love is, when the faithful are convinced that they are loved by God, and that they are not slightly touched with this conviction, but have their souls thoroughly imbued with it.

TSK: Rom 5:5 - hope // because // shed

hope : Job 27:8; Psa 22:4, Psa 22:5; Isa 28:15-18, Isa 45:16, Isa 45:17, Isa 49:23; Jer 17:5-8; Phi 1:20; 2Th 2:16; 2Ti 1:12; Heb 6:18, Heb 6:19

because : Rom 8:14-17, Rom 8:28; Mat 22:36, Mat 22:37; 1Co 8:3; Heb 8:10-12; 1Jo 4:19

shed : Isa 44:3-5; Eze 36:25; 2Co 1:22, 2Co 3:18, 2Co 4:6; Gal 4:6, Gal 5:22; Eph 1:13; Eph 3:16-19, Eph 4:30; Tit 3:5

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Poole: Rom 5:5 - And hope maketh not ashamed // Because, &c // The love of God // Is shed abroad in our hearts // By the Holy Ghost which is given unto us

And hope maketh not ashamed it doth not disappoint or deceive us. Frustrated hopes fill men with shame and confusion, Job 6:19,20 . This passage seems to be taken out of Psa 22:5 .

Because, &c. this is either rendered as the reason of all that went before; Therefore the justified by faith have peace with God, access to him by faith, hope of glory, joy in tribulation, &c., because the love of God is shed abroad in their hearts: or else it is a reason of what immediately preceded; Therefore hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad, &c.

The love of God understand it either actively, of our love to God, or rather passively, of his love to us, (of which he speaks, Rom 5:8 ), and of the sense thereof.

Is shed abroad in our hearts is greatly manifested, or abundantly poured forth: a frequent metaphor, both in the Old and New Testament: see Isa 44:3 Joe 2:28 Zec 12:10 Joh 7:38 Act 2:17 .

By the Holy Ghost which is given unto us not excluding the Father and Son; it is the more proper work of the Spirit, both to make us feel the love of God, and to fill our hearts with love to God.

PBC: Rom 5:5

See PB: Job 8:13

Haydock: Rom 5:5

God having prevented us with his gifts when we did not at all deserve them, having showered upon us the blessings of faith, charity, patience, and fidelity, we cannot but have the greatest confidence that after this pledge and assurance of his good will towards us, he well finish the work he has begun, and bring us to his heavenly kingdom. (Calmet) ---

Not only the gift of the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit himself, is given to us, who resides in our soul as in his own temple, who sanctifies it, and makes if partaker of his divine love. (Menochius)

Gill: Rom 5:5 - And hope maketh not ashamed // because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us

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 of the ground and foundation of it, the person and righteousness of Christ; nor of the object of it, eternal glory:

because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us. By "the love of God" is meant, not that love by which we love God, for hope does not depend upon, nor is it supported by our love and obedience to God; but the love of God to us, of which some instances are given in the following verses: us is said "to be shed abroad in our hearts"; which denotes the plenty and abundance of it, and the full and comfortable sensation which believers have of it: "by the Holy Spirit": who leads into, and makes application of it: "and is given to us": for that purpose, as the applier of all grace, the Comforter, and the earnest of heaven. Now the love which the Spirit sheds abroad in the heart, is the source and spring, both of justification itself, which is owing to the free grace of God, and of all the effects of it, as peace with God, access to the throne of grace, rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, the usefulness of afflictions, and the stability of hope, and is here alleged as the reason of all.