<p>3:17 <i>Brothers, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern</i>- The example in view may specifically refer to the attitude expressed in the notes on :16. They were to be 'co-followers', bound together by a common attempt to walk as Paul did. The 'walking' in view is surely that just spoken of in :16, of walking according to our present state of understanding of the Lord Jesus. Paul's tolerance of others, of meeting them where they stand and going further with them, is to be our pattern. And yet it is also clear from 1 Tim. 1:16 that Paul saw himself as &quot;a Christ appointed model&quot; (Robert Roberts).</p>