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.



Ver. 5. Hope maketh not ashamed] As among men, many lie languishing at hope’s hospital, as he did at the pool of Bethesda, Joh_5:1-9, and return as they did from the brooks of Tema, Job_6:17. Or, as men go to a lottery with heads full of hopes, but return with hearts full of blanks. The Dutch have a proverb to this purpose, Sperare et expectare, multos reddit stultos. And we say, He that hopes for dead men’s shoes, may hap go barefoot. Bad men’s hopes may hop headless, they may perish in the height of their expectancies. Not so those that hope in God; they shall yet praise him who is the help of their countenance, and their God, Psa_43:5. Nunquam confusi, Deo confisi. Never preplexed, having trusted in God.