Diotrephes:
di-ot'-re-fez (Diotrephes): A person mentioned in 3Joh 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.
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