ACC ~ 3 John 1 v9

THE LIMIT TO PATIENCE. HILARY OF ARLES: This verse teaches us that we ought to bear the abuse of those who insult us with equanimity, but sometimes we have to protest it because if we do not do so, these people will corrupt the minds of those who might otherwise have heard something good about us. INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 3 JOHN.

HE DOES NOT ACKNOWLEDGE AUTHORITY. BEDE: It seems that Diotrephes was a leading heretic of those times. He was proud and insolent, preferring to gain control of the church by preaching something new and different rather than by following humbly the old commandments which John had already given them. ON 3 JOHN.

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