If you cannot do good by great deeds you can by little ones.” These boys said nothing, but the teacher saw by their looks that they thought he was mistaken. A.). It is not our wealth or our cold, condescending pity men and women need; it is the Christian fellowship that makes them feel that “we have all of us one human heart,” that sees in every class or lot creatures of “like passions” with us, the same infirmities, and the same redeeming graces. One had a concealed ulcer; another a sightless eye; another a besetting sin; another an intolerable debt; another a fearful recollection; another an awful apprehension; and when all the burdens were exposed to view, and each man bidden to make his own selection, every man preferred his own. The compound ἀναπληρ. Our motivation comes from the indwelling Holy Spirit ( Philippians 2:13), though Paul did not emphasize this motivation in chapter6. We must guard against a judgment formed of men from the effect of their mind-action upon us, rather than from a consideration of their real moral character. 5. 1. 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” (John 13:34; John 15:12); Romans 15:3 gives Christ as the example in the particular duty here. By as much as men are defrauded of any sense, or weakened in any power, we afford them protection. There is a pride that is honourable and beautiful. A man may leave you unhappy, and yet be a good man. We may lighten it by manual assistance, by procuring the requisite help, or pecuniary, which would render the excess of labour unnecessary. ].” Has He, the God of heaven, left his throne of glory, that, through his own sufferings unto death he might exalt you to it: and will not you, a redeemed sinner, forego some small comforts, in order to administer to the necessities of your afflicted brethren; and especially when called to it by your Redeemer himself? ἀλλήλων. 2. So help others as not to destroy their self-reliance. What Paul here requires, is conceived by him as the culminating point of such a service. BibliographyNicol, W. Robertson, M.A., L.L.D. That Paul meant the Christian duty of helping fellow Christians to be understood as the totality of the Law of Christ is a preposterous error. How earnest, how unremitting, would be that exertion, if that motive were indeed in full force. Strangest of all things in this wondrous universe is the loneliness of man. ), Though the lower animals have feeling, they have no fellow-feeling. Think but a moment what Christ has done for you: “Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich [Note: 2 Corinthians 8:9. 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Yes, this is the lesson we all need We cannot change all the inequalities of the world, or heal all its diseases. “For every man shall bear his own burden.” We shall not bear all the burdens of others. Greek. We are to render them as much help as, by sympathy or otherwise, we may. The brother who is peculiarly trying is to be borne with to seventy times seven, even to the measure of the law of Christ. The solution of the problem was the despair of the old world before Christianity came. Do feel free to make copies for friends that might be interested as long as you do not make profit from the copies. 20: ὧν ἂν ἐκλείπητε ὑμεῖς, οὐχ εὑρήσετε τοὺς ἀναπηρώσοντας. This law is emphatically the law of Christ--“as I have loved you.”, Our individual burden often not the heaviest, An old fable tells us that Jupiter, finding that each man thought his lot the hardest, caused all men to be brought together for a mutual exchange of burdens. BibliographyVincent, Marvin R. DD. He needs it, not because he is a greater sinner than a man who is not poor, but because he needs more courage, more hope, more patience, more high thought and feeling, more contentment, more strength to endure his hard lot, than men who are socially better off than himself. Bear ye one another‘s burdens (αλληλων τα βαρη βασταζετε — allēlōn ta barē bastazete). ), but it is ἔννομος Χριστοῦ (1 Corinthians 9:21), and seeing that it is subjection to a principle, or rather to a Person, and not to a command or series of commands, it is the very opposite to subjection to the Law of Moses, though, of course, in one sense, moral obligation to a Person is the highest Law of all. "John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible". "Commentary on Galatians 6:2". Greek. St Paul thus returns to the thought of Galatians 5:13-14, but, as always, giving his words a deeper and wider range. Every human being brought to our hands in trouble is a messenger of God. It seemed doubtful whether the operation would be successful, and equally doubtful whether all this filial devotion would not be wasted time and worthless endeavour. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the Law of Christ. BibliographyWhedon, Daniel. It is usually taken merely to mean, Have patience with one another’s faults (Romans 15:1); along with which several, such as Rosenmüller, Flatt, Winer, quite improperly (in opposition to ἀλλήλων, according to which the burdened ones are the very persons affected by sin) look upon βάρη as applying to faults by which a person becomes burdensome to others. Christ's religion escapes mere Buddhist universalism. Each must bear his own judgment at the last. See under Galatians 5:14. If a company of travellers were journeying towards the same place, some heavily, and others more lightly laden, they could render the way less tedious and endear themselves to each other by mutual assistance, in bearing their burdens. 2 is "Bear Ye One Another's Burdens" (Galatians 6:2). ), The blessedness of sympathy and the vice of selfishness, Amid all the profuse waste of the means of happiness which men commit, there is no imprudence more flagrant than that of selfishness. It fitted Him for the ministry of solace. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/galatians-6.html. So, too, in earlier times the freedom and the sanctity of the individual person were recognized by the Church long before they became embodied in legislation, and in our own time it was the religious instinct of the nation which drove Parliament to sweep away the last trace of slavery. Christ taught the law of action by. We are to contribute to their strength and to their courage. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Matthew 20:12; Acts 15:10. 1983-1999. The responsibility of the individual soul--“Every man shall bear his own burden.” Now these two principles are not really opposed to each other, and neither are the precepts of the text. Galatians 6:2. τὰ βάρη, burdens) Every fault is indeed a burden: in Galatians 6:5, φορτιον; φορτιον is a burden proportioned to the strength of him who bears it; βάρη are burdens which exceed his strength.— βαστάζετε, bear) constantly and steadily: do not give your help once and no more.— καὶ οὕτως ἀναπληρώσατε, and thus fulfil) [adimplete]. This is worthy of the character of Christ, inasmuch as it is, 2. We must look at this great teaching along the line of true social economy. "The law (they say) which a man learns in this world is vanity, in comparison of תורתו של משיח "the law of the Messiah", or Christ;'. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hcc/galatians-6.html. A little four-year-old girl looked up from her play as the dish fell to the floor, and touched by the mother’s troubled face she stole to her side, and softly stroking her hand, whispered, “Nice mamma.” Blessed little comforter! We fulfil the law of Christ’s teaching, and that of His apostles. If a flaming, demonstrative nature, and a cool, undemonstrative nature, come together, neither of them understanding or making allowance for the peculiarities of the other, there can scarcely fail of being unhappiness. You feel uncomfortable because you don"t know how to help, indeed, often you can"t help. Give it a separate existence, give it the individuality to which it aspires, and what is the result? The beauty of the Christian spirit is this: that we have no escape from its common constancy; there is nothing occasional in it. He who will not weep with them that weep, neither shall he rejoice with them that rejoice; and thus there are sealed from him the sources of some of the purest and truest delights which the heart of man can entertain, namely, the pleasure which we derive from the happiness of others. Link opens to 34 multiple commentary notes on that verse - to advance click next verse - quick way to see comments on a single verse. ), To bear the burden of a person who has a heavy load of laborious duty, is either to assist him directly in the performance of it, or to act towards him in such a manner as shall make the performance of it more easy; to bear the burden of a person who is oppressed with affliction, is to commiserate him, and do what we can to relieve and comfort him; to bear the burden of one who is encumbered with mistaken views, mental weakness, strong prejudices, and bad temper, is patiently to bear the annoyance which these unavoidably occasion; at the same time employing all proper means for correcting these intellectual and moral obliquities, weaknesses, and faults To bear the mistakes and faults of our fellow Christians does not by any means imply that we flatter them in their erroneous opinions or improper habits: but it does imply that we, cherishing a deep-felt sense of our own intellectual and moral deficiencies and improprieties, bear patiently the inconveniences which their mistakes and faults occasion to us, and in a truly friendly disposition do everything in our power to remove these mistakes and faults. Some of the commandments Christ and His apostles gave us are the same as those that Moses gave the Israelites. Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary. A.). In the general history of mankind, the maxim of the text, so far from being acted out, has been reversed; instead of men sharing or bearing one another’s burdens, they appear to act upon the rule of laying them on each other’s shoulders, with the view of getting rid of their portion of the weight. Many a man has been sorry afterwards that he has admitted the curious into the privacy of his thoughts. Zondervan. Pearson, Christian World Pulpit, vol. But so, too, conscience in a good man may leave you stirred up. Galatians 6:2 Carry one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the Law of Christ. Which is not called the law of Christ because first given by him, (for himself maketh it the sum of the ten commandments), but because he received it and vindicated it from the corruption of the Pharisees’ interpretation, Matthew 5:43,44; because he so often urged it, and so seriously commanded and commended it to his disciples; and set us the highest precedent and example of it, and hath by his Spirit written it in the hearts of his people. 2:29 ); the burden of each is to be borne by himself in respect to rendering his account to God (Ellicott from Augustine). A poor man needs the new birth, which comes from the Holy Spirit of God, more than any man. It also takes time to get involved, and it often means you will be involved in the suffering to some extent. All, taking on themselves some one office for the benefit of others, promote, at the same time, both their own welfare, and the welfare of the whole community. 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. There were some among them very zealous for the law of Moses: St. Paul here puts them in mind of a law which they were under, and were obliged to observe; and he shews them how to do it; namely, by helping to bear one another's burdens, and not by increasing their burdens by the observance of the Levitical law. I. 1801-1803. The total disbelief of many scholars that there is really any such thing as "the Law of Christ" is as incredible as it is unreasonable. BibliographyNisbet, James. 1897. The helots of Sparta, and the slaves of Greece, the gladiators of Rome, and the captives of barbarian invaders, were but the beasts of burden for the more favoured portion of the community. It is agreeable with the example of Christ (John 13:13; Philippians 2:6-9; Hebrews 2:14-16). The Expositor's Greek Testament. It may weigh thee down to perdition. 1859. burdens. There are two great forces for uplifting human life, when it is low in quality and low in material prosperity, which are more powerful and more necessary than any other of the processes of civilisation. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/galatians-6.html. The matter mentioned in the last verse led on to this: but this grasps far wider, extending to all the burdens which we can, by help and sympathy, bear for one another. And the lowest should be helped first, and the most needy should be helped most. We must take this text into the sphere of realism. The “law of Christ” is not simply the law of love, or His new commandment which is only one precept of His law (Theodoret, De Wette, Usteri), but His entire code, which indeed is summed up in love. References: Galatians 6:2-5.—S. You may well begin to hurt with the person if it is related to death or injury. [12] David Lipscomb, A Commentary on the New Testament Epistles, Galatians (Nashville: The Gospel Advocate Company, n.d.), p. 277. Providential losses, poverty, embarrassment, oppression, etc. Still less is education taken into account. Those who have most, often say least about them. II. The spirit of this teaching forbids us to employ our rights of pleasure in such a way as to harm men. The next Sabbath those boys gathered round the teacher with smiling lips and eyes so full of light that they fairly twinkled like the stars. [10] (This restriction eliminates the ordinances Christ commanded). The law of Christ (little "l") is not a law in the legal sense of the word. Here St. Paul says, “Bear ye one another’s burdens”; and in the fifth verse of this same chapter, be says, “Every man shall bear his own burden.” As if both of the statements could not be true! ), The difficulty of helpfulness arising from the suspicion of others, Just imagine a weary, footsore traveller tugging along with his pack on a hot summer’s day. Galatians 6. Why, you have told me of myself! The Church made manful efforts to supply the defects which the State ignored by its system of parochial schools, and it was not till our own time that the truth came home to men, that national education is a matter of national interest, and can be guaranteed only by the nation itself. Life is a magnificent thing. "Commentary on Galatians 6:2". Do you not know that in life, sometimes, the breadth of one inch in a railway truck determines whether the cars shall go over the embankment or on the straight track--just the pull of a switch one inch. Your brother had his heavy liabilities to this sin; he has now the weight of shame for his sin: instead of putting your holy foot upon his weakness, put your shoulder under his load, and share half or all the pressure. Galatians 5:26), opposed to the habit of selfishness: “mutually, one of the other bear ye the burdens.” τὰ βάρη, however, figuratively denotes the moral faults (comp. 1909-1922. Pity to others is kindness to ourselves. (T. L. Cuyler, D. D.), In this work of supplying the conditions of human progress, the State has found from time to time its most powerful helper and its most eloquent teacher in the Church of Christ. They say, that if a piano is struck in a room where another stands unopened and untouched, who lays his ear to that will hear a string within, as if touched by the hand of a shadowy spirit, sound the same note; but more strange how the strings of one heart vibrate to those of another; how woe wakens woe: how your grief infects me with sadness; how the shadow of a passing funeral and nodding hearse casts a cloud on the mirth of a marriage-party; how sympathy may be so delicate and acute as to become a pain. If you read gardening books, they direct you how to raise flowers and plants; but it is not necessary for you to read to find out that certain plants require a certain kind of climate. 2 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. He who comes the nearest to it with regard to others, is yet far distant with respect to God. I could not live with myself after committing a deed like that.” Why? καὶ οὕτως. 5. Diplomatic authority is in favour of the common text; but the versions give decided countenance to the other reading in the future, which Alford regards “as a probable correction, the imperative aorist being unusual” (Winer, § 43). He did not mean that there is no law under grace any more than he meant that there was no grace under the Mosaic Law. Search results for 'Which things OR wrath of God' using the 'International Standard Version'. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Every experience brings with it the power of bearing a burden. It is deducible from the precepts of Christ (John 13:33-34; John 15:12; John 15:17). It must not be enough for him that his heart yearns at the tale of calamity, and that he is ready to employ his money and his time in lightening the pressure of which he has been told; he must see to it that he have part in the bearing, as well as in the relieving of the calamity. I shall not merely be sorry for his bereavement, but I shall feel that the bereavement is my own. Not Ἰησοῦ as meaning the law that Jesus spake, e.g. In civil affairs an official has to overlook much if he is fit to rule. And yet it is possible enough, that the doctrine which we have now endeavoured to lay down, will appear to many of you to have the air of a new and far-fetched speculation. See James 1:25. But in offering to these the ministry of Christian love we should avoid everything that is likely to hurt their sensibilities. For then we learn always that there are sadder hearts to be healed, and we feel ashamed of our own trouble in the presence of a greater, and as we minister to them the mercy of our God steals into our own souls, and brings the consolation we never knew before. You have seen the principle illustrated in the life of the body. 2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. The word which St. Paul used, to express the assistance which the Holy Spirit affords to us in our necessities, marks the precise office which we are to occupy in assisting all who stand in need of help from us: we should take hold on the opposite end of their load, and bear it together with them [Note: Romans 8:26. II. So far as two families can be made one, the sorrows of either are the sorrows of both; and if there were but one vast family on the face of the earth, whatsoever afflicted the individual would afflict the mass … Who can tell us what Christian philanthropy would be, if the law of membership were felt and obeyed. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use our convenient, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. Those who fail to do so expose their lack of understanding of the law of Christ. It is a spirit of compassion and hopefulness excited in view of men’s failures and moral obliquities, rather than a spirit of fault-finding and criticism. When you have this abiding spirit of love, so that all your faculties live in it, and have been drilled in it, then, no matter how large a duty seems to be, your performance of it will be just as easy. BibliographyEadie, John. They should not be cast off to a cold and heartless world; a world rejoicing over their fall, and ready to brand them as hypocrites. Galatians 2:7 That is, Gentiles; Galatians 2:7 That is, Jews; also in verses 8 and 9; Galatians 2:9 That is, Peter; also in verses 11 and 14; Galatians 2:16 Or but through the faithfulness of … justified on the basis of the faithfulness of; Galatians 2:21 … There is animal hatred, and there is Divine hatred. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cgt/galatians-6.html. That we may enter into the precept before us, we will consider, Burthens of some kind every man is called to sustain—, [Some may be comparatively freed from them; nor do they lie on any with the same weight and pressure at all times: but no child of man is altogether exempt from them. 2. Genuine Christlike sympathy must be practical. The other reading is the future ἂναπληρώσετε —“and so ye shall fulfil the law of Christ.” It is supported by B, F, G, two MSS., the Vulgate and Claromontane Latin, the Syriac (Peschito), the Armenian, Coptic, Sahidic, and Ethiopic versions, Theodoret (MS.), and some of the Latin fathers; and it is admitted by Lachmann, Meyer, and Ellicott. New and esoteric teaching about faith and morals disqualifies itself by its very newness!” We must love one another. The same principle which is thus exemplified in the tree is seen also in the phenomena of sentient life. 5, 1908, p. 267). The briers meet us at every turn, and there is nothing like sympathy to ease their pricks and stings. So he continued: “You think it is not so; but suppose you just try it for a week.” “How shall we try it?” asked one of them. 6:2-6). I have read of a Christian man, who, to know the reality of poverty, put on the dress of a beggar, and went into the hard lodging-house, where the poor outcasts have a comfortless pallet of straw and a ration of bad food, and after a week of experience gave this evidence, that it was worth to him ten years of study, and the source of the most intense pleasure in his lifetime. "Commentary on Galatians 6:2". Moses was the type of Christ, and Christ surpassed Moses, being the Lawgiver for all mankind. And so secular Socialism is changing its tone about religion. This is the spirit of community Burden = BARE! It is not at all a question of getting everything done for us, so that we may have a smooth and easy path at others’ expense and toil; but it is just that there may be a mutual succour, which will help every man to “bear his own burden,” such, e.g., as the burdens of poverty, affliction, excessive labour, etc. [The Lord Jesus Christ has enjoined it as our duty: “These things I command you, that ye love one another [Note: John 15:17. Life in this world may lead to life eternal in the world to come. New York. on StudyLight.org I could not do such a thing. In this age of societies and committees we are in danger of delegating our duty to other people. "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/shh/galatians-6.html. Each of us must carry his own knapsack, and shoulder his own musket. An air of condescension and a lofty tone of patronage are out of place in Christian service. Sometimes, under an apparently rough exterior, there is a gentle spirit and genuine kindness. so fulfil — or as other old manuscripts read, “so ye will fulfil,” Greek, “fill up,” “thoroughly fulfil.”. [12], To fulfill the law of Christ is to love thy neighbor as thyself. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.The Law of Christ is the Law of love. She did so, and I gave him a grand ride round the garden. In addition you can use the Interlinear Bible and much more to enhance your understanding of God's word. IV. "Commentary on Galatians 6:2". Thus there is a sense in which the believer is ἔννομος (cf. ), so far as it may be filled up at all (Romans 13:8). If Christ did not punish them, what right have we to do it? Gand Rapids, MI. 3. They did not believe that they could be of any use. See also Jerome on Galatians 6:3, p. 521 c. βαστάζετε,, Galatians 5:10. "Commentary on Galatians 6:2". Christianity speaks to men who are all struggling and suffering together, and says not, “Throw off the burden, deny the mutual claim, restrain the hand of help,” but, “What you must do, do willingly; what you might leave undone, do more willingly still.”. Copyright StatementThe text of this work is public domain. I attended the women’s prayer-meeting, and I went home that night scarcely tired at all; and oh, how often the words of that woman came to me, ‘If you love me, lean hard--lean hard.’ And then I thought how the Blessed Saviour says, ‘If you love Me, lean hard.’” And mothers, mothers, do you not remember how, when you carried that burden of the dying child, pale, feeble, and the breath almost gone, you felt, “Oh, if it loves me, let it lean hard.” You man, remember you not the time when, night after night, you took up your beloved wife and carried her to her couch, sad at the thought that the load was becoming lighter every moment, and you were ready to say to her, “My darling, if you love me, lean hard and close.” Oh, blessed Jesus, teach us how to rest our weakness on Thee, and lean hard on the burden-bearer of our sorrows and our weaknesses! In contrast to the false way proposed to them. The frailty of human nature, and the uncertainties of human life. A word, an old familiar word--it is like a medicine. Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible. Poverty is a burden which we may lighten. In view of the context probably the burden Paul had in mind was an excessive burden of particular temptation and struggle with the flesh (cf. Each of us has his own burden to bear. "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". You tell me, for instance, of unfortunate captives who have fallen into the hands of cruel taskmasters. [5] Vine's Greek Dictionary, on "burdens.". 4. In all ways of looking at it, he is most to be pitied who is most variously and most hopelessly wicked. Nor did he rest in general instruction, but descended to the most minute particulars; omitting nothing that could tend to advance the honour of God, or the welfare of mankind. He will not believe that a man can be honest; or, if he does believe it, he will say to himself, “What a power a man must require to enable him to be honest. 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