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Diotrephes
Jove-nourished, rebuked by John for his pride (3 John 1:1:9). He was a Judaizer, prating against John and his fellow-labourers “with malicious words” (7).
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- 3 John 1:9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
