John Bengel Commentary - Galatians 6:5 - 6:5

Online Resource Library

Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | Download

John Bengel Commentary - Galatians 6:5 - 6:5


(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)

This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

Gal 6:5. Φορτίον, a burden) either heavy or light. Comp. βάρη, Gal 6:2.-βαστάσει, shall bear) in the Divine judgment. The future, the antithesis to which is in the present [Bear ye] in Gal 6:2. There is however a “semiduplex oratio” in these words, so that the one is simultaneously indicated by the other.[61] Glorying is used as an “ad hominem” argument, because the other exhibits [shows on his part] false glorying: this is taken away from him, and the peculiar testimony of a good conscience is also in the meantime called glorying, in the way of paraphrase.

[61] See App. The present is understood in Gal 6:4, where the future is used; and the future is understood in verse 2, where the present is used.