The Pulpit Commentary — Galatians — Section 331

therewith. In other words, "Let ench man /la.O"-r&cr .. ); for each man ,ooU carry hia own be endeavouring in o. spirit of eelr•wo.tch- pack. A man's business is with his own fulneee to wo.lk orderly according to the pack ; and all depends upon his carrying Spirit." Thie notion of pmctical self-im- that, not putting it down. This " pack" proving attaches to the verb 001<1µ.&(., (<1>op-rlov) is the whole of the duties for the ("prove" or" oxamine ") o.Jeo in Rom. xii. 2; discharge of which each man is respoasible. 1 Uor. xi. 28; Eph. iii. 10. And then ehBll It is thus that the image is employed by he have rejoicing in himself alone (1<ul -r&-re our Lord (Matt. xi. 30), •• My yoke is easy, <ls fav-rclv µ.&11011 -rcl 1<a.6x11µ.a. l{e,); and tM/11, and my pack is light." So also in Matt. in regard to Mm$elf alone shall he have xxiii. 4, "For they tie op packs heavy and whereof to glo-ry. 'fhe preposition Eis ie hard to carry, and lay them upon men's used as in Matt. xiv. 31, Els -r! ilil<T-ra.O"a.s; shoulders." The phrase, -ro tawv <1>op-rlo11, " What didst thou look at that thou didst "the pack which is individually his own," doubt ? " Acts ii. 25, ''concerning him ; " implies that men's responsibilities vary, Eph. v. 32; Rom. iv. 20; xiii. 14; xvi. 19. each one having such as are peculiar to It depends upon the whole phrase, "shall himself. This "pack" is to be carefully have his ground of glorying," and not upon distinguished from the " heavy loads " the word rendered " ground of glorying " (tJciP11) of ver. 2. Our Christian obligations alone. The distinction which ordinarily Christ makes, to them who serve him well. obtains between verbals of the form of light ; but our burdens of remorse, shame; 1rpa:yµ.a. o.nd those of the form of 1rpii{1s grief, Joss, which are of our own wilful appears to hold good also in respect to procuring, these may be, must needs be, 1<a.6x11µ.a. and 1<a.6x11 .. ,s. Compare the use of hea1Jy. One part of our " pack " of 1<a.6x11 ..is in 2 Cor. vii. 4 and JO:s. iv. 16, with obligation is to ht:lp each other in bearing that of 1<a.6x11µ.u in Rom. iv. 2, lxe, 1<a.6x11µ.a., these "heavy loads ; " and we shall find our "bath whereof to glory;" 1 Cor. ix. 16, 001< joy and crown of glorying in doing so ; not r,,..,., µ.01 1<a.6x11µ.a., "I ho.ve nothing to glory only in the approval of onr own con- of." .In 1 Cor. v. 6, o/, Ka.l\ov -ro 1<a.6x11µ.a. sciences and in the consciousness of Christ's bµ.ow, the substantive seems to mean" boast," approval, but also in the manifold refresh- that ie, what is said in boasting, as dis- ments of mutuo.l Christian sympathy. On tinguished from 1<a.6x11cr1s, the action of the other hand, our Christian responsibilities, 11ttering a boast. The verb 1<a.vxii>µ.t11, with including these of mutual sympathy and its derivatives-a favourite term with St. Paul succour, we must not attempt to evade. -often appears to mean "rejoicing" rather One man is able to do more for others than than " boasting" ( c[ Rom. v. 2; Heb. iii. 6); another man can ; the truly "spiritual" but it seems desirable as a rnle to render it man, for example, can do that which others by "glorying," with the underato.nding that may not even attempt to touch : each one the writer has frequently the joyous state has his own part and duty. And Christ's of feeling more prominently in hie view mot d'ordre to all his workmen, or possibly than the utterance of aelf-gratulation. the apostle means to all his soldiers, is this : Who.t the apostle meant by "having one's " Every man carry his own po.ck I " The ground of glorying in regard to one's own future tense of the verb "shall carry" does self alone," is well illustrated by what he not point to some future time, but to the says respecting himself in 2 Cor. i. 12, absoluteness of the law for all time; as in " Our glorying is this, the testimony of our eh. ii. 16 (see Winer, •Gram. N. 'f.,' § 40, conscience, that in holiness o.nd sincerity of p. 251, 6th edit.). The varying turn given God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace to the same general image of carrying of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, burdens in var. 2 and here is quite in and more abundantly to you-ward." He St. Paul's manner. Compare, for exo.mple, had been hilill!elf in the habit of testing in 2 Cor. iii. the varying tum given to the his conduct and spirit by the standard of images of "epistle " and "veil." Christ's law; and this was the fruit. And Ver. 6.-Let him that is taught in the word not in another (1<a.l ouK ,is .-~11 ,-r,po11); and oommunicate unto him that teacheth in all not in regard to that neighbour of his. The good things (1<oivwv,(.,.., lie d 1<a.'Tf/xo6µ.wos -rov article probably points to that neighbour l\o-yu11 ..,;; 1<a.-r11xoiill'T1, '1v 1raO'IV a.-ya.80,s); let him with whom he ha~ been comparing himself; that is receiving instruction in the Word share and so, perhaps, also in Rom. ii. 1. But with him that instructeth in all good things. it may be simply " his neighbour;" " the The Authorized Version appears to have man who is other than himself; " as it is exercised sound discretion in leaving the iu 1 Cor. vi. 1 o.nd x. 24, in neither of which particle a, untro.nslated. It is, in fact, here passo.ges has any particulo.r " other person" merely a· conjunction of transition: not in bC6n before referred to. 11ny degree 11dversative; for the exhortation Ver. 5.-For every man ahBll bear hie to libero.lily towards our teachers is perfectly own burden (<Kacr-ros ,,ap .,.J 1'6ao11 ,pop-rlov germo.ne to the preceding topics of carry inir 298 THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS. [arr. vr. 1-18,