I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not.
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Richard Challoner
AD 1781
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.