Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
They zealously seek you (zhlousin umav). Zhlow is an old and a good word from zhlov (zeal, jealousy), but one can pay court with good motives or evil. So here in contrast with Paul's plain speech the Judaizers bring their fawning flattery.
To shut you out (ekkleisai umav). From Christ as he will show (Galatians 5:4).
That ye may seek them (ina autouv zhloute). Probably present active indicative with ina as in fusiousqe (I Corinthians 4:6) and ginwskomen (I John 5:20). The contraction -ohte would be -wte, not -oute (Robertson, Grammar, p. 325).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Galatians 4:17:
1 Corinthians 4:6
Galatians 4:21
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