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Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, he doesn’t receive the brothers himself, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
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Verse 9–10. 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 Saint John gives so favourable a character. Witham.—It seemeth, saith Ven. Bede, that he was an arch heretic, or proud sect master—υπομνησω. I will rebuke them, and make them known to be wicked. Bede.
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