3 John 1:9
I had written perhaps to the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, doth not receive us.
Challoner: Diotrephes, who lovethThis 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.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Scripsissem forsitan ecclesiæ : sed is qui amat primatum gerere in eis, Diotrephes, non recipit nos :
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- Ἔγραψά τι τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ· ἀλλʼ ὁ φιλοπρωτεύων αὐτῶν Διοτρέφης οὐκ ἐπιδέχεται ἡμᾶς.
Haydock's commentary
On verses 9 to 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 St. John gives so favourable a character. (Witham)
It seemeth, saith Ven. Bede, that he was an arch heretic, or proud sect master
upomneso. I will rebuke them, and make them known to be wicked. (Ven. Bede)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.