Galatians 4:17

Galatians 4:17

15 ¹What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.

16 Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

17 They ^azealously court you, but for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them.

18 But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you.

19 ^aMy little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

20 I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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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).

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