As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
Ver. 12. To make a fair show] Gr. ευπροσωπησαι, to set a good face on it, before the Jews especially, and to ingratiate with them.
For the cross of Christ] That is, for the doctrine of the cross, or of justification by the death of Christ crucified.