I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Diotrephes.doth not receive us, nor those we recommend, but prattles and talks against me. We know no more of this man, nor of Demetrius, of whom St. John gives so favourable a character. (Witham)
It see meth, saith Ven. Bede, that he was an arch heretic, or proud sect master
upomneso. I will rebuke them, and make them known to be wicked. (Ven. Bede)
Diotrephes, who loveth: This man seemeth to be in power, but not a friend to the faithful; therefore this part of the letter might be an admonition to him from the apostle.
