“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. — Paul's communal imperative: 'bastazo' (carry, bear the weight of) each other's 'barin' (burdens, heavy loads), a mutual-aid principle that constitutes 'nomos Christou' (law of Christ), fulfilling the summative law of love (5:14) through concrete burden-bearing.
Church Fathers on Galatians 6:2
“Bear one another's burdens.” It being impossible for man to be without failings, he exhorts them not to scrutinize severely the offenses of others, but even to bear their failings, that their own may in turn be borne by others. As, in the building of a house, all the stones hold not the same position, but one is fitted for a corner but not for the foundations, another for the foundations, and not for the corner so too is it in the body of the Church. The same thing holds in…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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