Quotes & Notes on:
Galatians 6:2
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John Wesley's Notes:
Bear ye one another's burdens-Sympathize with, and
assist, each other, in all your weaknesses, grievances, trials.
And so fulfil the law of Christ-The law of Christ (an uncommon
expression) is the law of love: this our Lord peculiarly recommends;
this he makes the distinguishing mark of his disciples.
- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:
* Bear. Ga 6:5; 5:13,14; Ex 23:5; Nu 11:11,12; De 1:12; Isa 58:6 Mt
8:17; 11:29,30; Lu 11:46; Ro 15:1; 1Th 5:14; 1Pe 2:24
* the law. Joh 13:14,15; 15:12; 1Co 9:21; Jas 2:8; 1Jo 2:8-11; 4:21
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Adam Clarke's Commentary:
Bear ye one another's burdens] Have sympathy; feel for each
other; and consider the case of a distressed brother as your own.
And so fulfil the law of Christ.] That law or commandment, Ye shall love
one another; or that, Do unto all men as ye would they should do unto
you. We should be as indulgent to the infirmities of others, as we can
be consistently with truth and righteousness: our brother's infirmity
may be his burden; and if we do not choose to help him to bear it, let
us not reproach him because he is obliged to carry the load.
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Family Bible Notes:
One another's burdens; of weakness, temptation, and sorrow. The law of
Christ; to love one another as he has loved them. Joh 15:12.
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1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
He shows that this is the end of rebukes, to raise up our brother
who is fallen, and not proudly to oppress him. Therefore every one must
seek to have praise of his own life by approving himself, and not by
rebuking others. (e) Christ, in plain and clear words, calls the
commandment of charity his commandment.
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People's New Testament Commentary:
Bear ye one another's burdens. Help each other, sustain each other; if
you see one about to stumble under his burden, hold him up. See PNTC for
Ga 6:5.
So fulfil the law of Christ. The law of love. See Joh 13:34.
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Robertson's Word Pictures:
Bear ye one another's burdens (allêlôn ta barê bastazete). Keep on
bearing (present active imperative of bastazô, old word, used of Jesus
bearing his Cross in Joh 19:17. Baros means weight as in Mt 20:12; 2Co
4:17. It is when one's load (phortion, verse Ga 6:5) is about to press
one down. Then give help in carrying it. Fulfil (anaplêrôsate). First
aorist active imperative of anaplêroô, to fill up, old word, and see on
Mt 23:32; 1Th 2:16; 1Co 14:16. Some MSS. have future indicative (anaplêrôsete).
Albert Barnes' Commentary:
Bear ye one another's burdens. See Barnes for Ro 15:1. Bear with
each other; help each other in the Divine life. The sense is, that every
man has peculiar temptations and easily besetting sins, which constitute
a heavy burden. We should aid each other in regard to these, and help
one another to overcome them.
And so fulfil the law of Christ. The peculiar law of Christ, requiring
us to love one another. See Barnes for Joh 13:34. This was the
distinguishing law of the Redeemer; and they could in no way better
fulfil it than by aiding each other in the Divine life. The law of
Christ would not allow us to reproach the offender, or to taunt him, or
to rejoice in his fall. We should help him to take up his load of
infirmities, and sustain him by our counsels, our exhortations, and our
prayers. Christians, conscious of their infirmities, have a right to the
sympathy and the prayers of their brethren. They should not be east off
to a cold and heartless world; a world rejoicing over their fall, and
ready to brand them as hypocrites. They should be pressed to the warm
bosom of brotherly kindness; and prayer should be made to ascend without
ceasing around an erring and a fallen brother. Is this the case in
regard to all who bear the Christian name?
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Jamieson-Faussett Brown:
If ye, legalists, must "bear burdens," then instead of legal burdens (Mt
23:4), "bear one another's burdens," literally, "weights." Distinguished
by BENGEL from "burden," Ga 6:4 (a different Greek word, "load"):
"weights" exceed the strength of those under them; "burden" is
proportioned to the strength.
so fulfil--or as other old manuscripts read, "so ye will fulfil," Greek,
"fill up," "thoroughly fulfil."
the law of Christ--namely, "love" (Ga 5:14). Since ye desire "the law,"
then fulfil the law of Christ, which is not made up of various minute
observances, but whose sole "burden" is "love" (Joh 13:34; 15:12); Ro
15:3 gives Christ as the example in the particular duty here.
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Spurgeon Devotional Commentary:
(No comment on this verse).
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William Burkitt's Notes:
This is a general precept, and requires us to sympathize with our
brethren in all thier sorrows and sufferings, and to bear a part with
them under the load and burden of oppressive wants and necessities;
particularly, bearing with the weaknesses and infirmities of our
brethren, seems here to be recommended to our care and practice in this
apostolical injunction, Bear ye one another's burdens. The encouragement
to which duty follows, So shall we fulfil the law of Christ; that is,
the law of love, the moral law which enjoins us to love our neighbour as
ourselves.
But why is this called the law of Christ, when it was long before
Christ; yea, before Moses, and as old as Adam himself, being part of the
law of nature, which was written in Adam's heart before there was any
written Bible?
I answer, the law of love is very properly called the law of Christ;
because he revived it, rescued it, recommended and enforced it,
frequently urged it upon his followers, and exemplified it in his own
life and conversation, therefore called a new commandment, and his
commandment: This is my commandment, &c. A new commandment I give unto
you, that ye love one another, Joh 13:34 (see note)
Learn hence, 1. That to have our ear, our heart, and our hand, open to
our brethren in distress, is a necessary Christian duty: our ear open to
their mournful complaints, our heart open to sympathize with and mourn
over them, our hand open to the relief of their necessities and wants.
This is a burden which the law of Christ has laid upon us; Bear ye one
another's burdens.
Learn, 2. To bear a part of our brethren's burdens with a compassionate
heart and helping hand, is a fulfilling of the law of Christ; because
much love, which is the fulfilling of the law, goes out, and is acted in
the bearing of it; so fulfil the law of Christ.
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:
(No comment on this verse).
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole
Bible:
(No comment on this verse).
- The Fourfold Gospel:
(No comment on this verse).
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