2. 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.
JFB.
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