Diotrephes
I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have
the preeminence among them, receiveth us not....
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was a man mentioned in the (3 John, verses 9–11). His name
means "fed by Jupiter". As Raymond E. Brown comments,
"Diotrephes is not a particularly common name."[1]
In addition to being ambitious, proud, disrespectful of
apostolic authority, rebellious, and inhospitable, the
author of the letter says that Diotrephes tried to hinder
those desiri...
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di-ot'-re-fez (Diotrephes): A person mentioned in 3 Jn 1:9,10
as contentiously resisting the writer's authority and
forbidding others from exercising the Christian hospitality
which he himself refused to show. The words "who loveth to
have the preeminence, among them" may indicate that he was a
church official, abusing his position.chief stars...
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(nourished by Jove), a Christian mentioned in 3Jo 1:9 but of
whom nothing is known....
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Jove-nourished, rebuked by John for his pride (3 John 1:9). He
was a Judaizer, prating against John and his fellow-
labourers
"with malicious words" (7)....
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3 John 1:9, loving to have the preeminence" through
ambition. A Judaizer, who opposed the missionaries when
preaching grace to the Gentiles, see 3 John 1:7. He "prated
against" John and the orthodox "with malicious words"; he
"received not" John, by not receiving with love the brethren
whom John recommended (Matthew 10:40). His influence was s...
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