Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.
17 Mark them By this expression he means, that it is all one to him what persons they single out for themselves for imitation, provided they conform themselves to that purity of which he was a pattern. By this means all suspicion of ambition is taken away, for the man that is devoted to his own interests wishes to have no rival.
He closes the chapter with warnings and exhortations. I. He warns them against following the examples of seducers and evil teachers (Phi 3:18, Phi 3:19): Many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ. Observe, 1.
Commenting on Philippians 3:17-21
For many walk,.... "otherwise", as the Syriac version adds; and which truly explains the words, and gives the sense; they walked not as the apostle and his followers; they walked as men, as carnal men, Co1 3:3, according to the course of the world, after their ungodly lusts, Eph 2:2; or according to the rites and ceremonies of the Mosaic dispensation, and not uprightly, and...