They zealously affect you (zhlousin uJmav). They are zealously paying you court in order to win you over to their side. Affect, in this sense, is obsolete. It is from affectare, to strive after, earnestly desire. So Shaks. Tam. of Shr. 1 1 40 :

"In brief, sir, study what you most affect." Ben Johnson, Alchem. 3 2 :

"Pray him aloud to name what dish he affects." As a noun, desire. So Chaucer, Troil. and Cress. 3 1391 : "As Crassus dide for his affectis wronge" (his wrong desires). Comp. 1 Corinthians 12:31; 1 Corinthians 14:1.

Not well [ο υ κ α λ ω ς]. Not in an honorable way.

Nay [α λ λ α]. So far from dealing honorably.

They would exclude you [ε κ κ λ ε ι σ α ι υ μ α ς θ ε λ ο υ σ ι ν]. From other teachers who do not belong to their party - those of anti - Judaising views who formed the sounder part of the church.

That ye might affect them [ι ν α α υ τ ο υ ς ζ η λ ο υ τ ε]. So that in your isolation from others, you might be led to seek affiliation with them.

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