The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 5:1-11
( a ) As to the consciousness of individual believers. read more
Romans 5:3-5 Niv
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 5:1-11
The state of the justified. We saw in last chapter how Abraham was justified by faith alone, and how his case really covers ours. The promise of blessing through a seed, which Abraham believed so implicitly, has been fulfilled in Christ. We accordingly behove in the faithful Promiser who raised up Jesus from the dead, and we regard his death and resurrection as being a deliverance to death for our offences, and a deliverance from death for our justification. Faith enables us to draw... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 5:1-21
(6) The results of the revelation of the righteousness of God, as affecting (a) the consciousness and hopes of believers; (b) the position of mankind before God. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 5:2-5
Christian discipline. Christianity is a religion intended both for heaven and for earth. It does not lose sight of the present when gazing into the future, visible to it alone. Beginning with our relation to God, it establishes thereupon our relation to men. It unfolds morality in the act of revealing the spiritual and Divine. It represents heaven, not merely as a compensation for the miseries of time and earth, but as a state attained by the training and the education which, in the order... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 5:3-5
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations (or, our tribulations ) also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Ghost which is given to us . The peace, the joy, the hope, that come of faith might be supposed unable to stand against the facts of this present life, in which, to those first believers, only peculiar tribulations might... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 5:3-5
Blessed fruit off a bitter tree. The letters of St. Paul abound in strange and striking paradoxes. In another place he speaks of himself "as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things." Here he speaks of the Christian as "glorying in tribulation." He has been speaking of the effects of justification by faith, and ends by saying, "We rejoice in hope of the glory of God" ( Romans 5:2 ). Our joy, however, is not confined... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 5:3-5
The joy of tribulation. Paul has taught us that peace, nay glorying, may be ours, though this be a world of trial. He now teaches that we may glory in the very trials themselves. And this teaching he enforces by a chain of arguments. In other words, he taught in the previous verses that we are conquerors; now he teaches that we are "more than conquerors." I. TRIBULATION WORKETH PATIENCE . NO character can be truly formed without the opportunity of endurance; we must learn to... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 5:3-5
Tribulation made subsidiary to hope. Trouble is usually considered antagonistic to joy. A ready objection might occur, therefore, to the apostle's declaration of Christian rejoicing. How was this possible, seeing the many hardships to which the profession of Christianity exposed its votaries? The text refutes such an objection. I. THE CHRISTIAN FACTORY . Tribulation is God's method of disciplining his people. Sin having entered the world, bringing sorrow in its train, the very... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 5:5
God's love in the heart. The process of spiritual discipline which the apostle has described is not a process natural to men, but one supernatural and special to the sincere Christian. The tribulations of this life do not work the good of all who are visited by them; on the contrary, many are hardened by the trials which are sent to humble and soften and improve. But they profit by earthly discipline who cordially receive the gospel of Christ, and whose spiritual nature is brought under... read more
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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 5:5
Verse 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, etc. I do not refer this only to the last sentence, but... read more