...but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, recL-ivi-th us not. p 10 "WherrUm-, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malic ¡uns words: ami not content tlu-eM'itl), neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth...

...slighted by Diotrephes, who set up against him. ' I wrote unto the church,' says that divine man, ' but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, receiveth us not.' [8 Jolm i. 90 Diotrephes was a Christian, and probably a Christian priest too ; and thought himself...

...&c. whom if thou bring forward, &c. we therefore ought to receive such, &c. I wrote unto the church ; but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not, &c. and forbiddeth them that would, &c.— 3 John 3. 6. 8. 10. SIXTHLY. Of the Order of the Churches...

...John's third epistle, written to his Gaius, (v. 9,) " I wrote unto the church," to wit, of Asia, " but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, receiveth us not." Clearly this \J/EySoawoffroXor would have been a bishop. It was a matter of ambition, a quarrel for...

...and continued not even so long as the usual term of the life of man." 26. " / wrote unto the church ; but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence...content therewith, neither doth he himself receive (lie FRIARS, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church." — John iii. 9....

...whom St. John mentions in his Third Epistle. / wrote unto the Church : but Diotrephes, rvho lovetn to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. Wherefore, if I come, I iciil remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words : and not content...

...consultation. Long before Cyprian said this, an apostle complained in these words, " I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, receiveth us not ; neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out...

...ought to receive such, that we might he fellowhelpers to the truth. 9 I wrote unto the church : hut Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, receiveth us not. p 10 Wherefore, if I come, I will rememher his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious...

...receivcth us not. " Wherefore, if I come, I will remember the deeds which he doeth, prating again* us with malicious words ; and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive >he brethren, »nd forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the Church." sphere of its activity,...

...therefore ought to receive such that we might be fellow helpers to the truth. " I wrote unto the Church, but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, receiveth us not. sphere of its activity, which if a bishop violates, he may be lawfully and conscientiously opposed...