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They zealously seek you (zēlousin humas). Zēloō is an old and a good word from zēlos (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 humas). From Christ as he will show (Gal 5:4).
That ye may seek them (hina autous zēloute). Probably present active indicative with hina as in phusiousthe (1Co 4:6) and ginōskomen (1Jo 5:20). The contraction ̇oēte would be ̇ōte, not ̇oute (Robertson, Grammar, p. 325).