The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
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Richard Challoner
AD 1781
To the lady Elect: Some conjecture that Elect might be the name of a family, or of a particular church; but the general opinion is, that it is the proper name of a lady, so eminent for her piety and great charity, as to merit this Epistle from St. John.