Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
If ye, legalists, must "bear burdens," then instead of legal burdens (Matthew 23:4), "bear one another's burdens," literally, "weights." Distinguished by BENGEL from "burden," Galatians 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" (Galatians 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" (John 13:34; John 15:12); Romans 15:3 gives Christ as the example in the particular duty here.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Galatians 6:2:
1 Corinthians 9:21
Galatians 5:14
Galatians 5:16
Galatians 6:3
Galatians 6:5
Revelation 2:2
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