Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Galatians 6:5

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5. For (by this way, :- , of proving himself, not depreciating his neighbor by comparison) each man shall bear his own "burden," or rather, " load " (namely, of sin and infirmity), the Greek being different from that in :- . This verse does not contradict :- . There he tells them to bear with others' "burdens" of infirmity in sympathy; here, that self-examination will make a man to feel he has enough to do with "his own load" of sin, without comparing himself boastfully with his neighbor. Compare :- . Instead of "thinking himself to be something," he shall feel the "load" of his own sin: and this will lead him to bear sympathetically with his neighbor's burden of infirmity. ÆSOP says a man carries two bags over his shoulder, the one with his own sins hanging behind, that with his neighbor's sins in front. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-6" class="com-number"

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