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I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.
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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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