Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 5:5
5. Hope maketh not ashamed Our hope can never disappoint or shame us. Love of God… Holy Ghost For our hope is confirmed by God’s own testimony shed into our hearts. That testimony is in the form of God’s love in our hearts awakening a reciprocal love to God. And being from God is sure. We have here (3-5) a beautiful climax of causes and effects, resulting in train from our justification. Tribulation, endurance, approvedness, hope hope ratified by God’s own testimony, and pointing us to a... read more
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 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.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.By the Holy Ghost — The efficient cause of all these present blessings, and the earnest of those to come. read more