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== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69963" /> == | == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69963" /> == | ||
<p> [[Diotrephes]] (''Dî'Ŏt'Re-Fçz'' ), ''Jove-Nourished.'' A professed Christian, who resisted the authority of John. 3 John 1:9. His place of residence is unknown. </p> | <p> [[Diotrephes]] ( ''Dî'Ŏt'Re-Fçz'' ), ''Jove-Nourished.'' A professed Christian, who resisted the authority of John. 3 John 1:9. His place of residence is unknown. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_65735" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_65735" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_37577" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_37577" /> == | ||
<p> (Διοτρεφής, Jove-nourished), a person who seems to have been one of the false teachers condemned by the apostle John in his third epistle. A.D. cir. 90. He appears to have been a presbyter or dean con, probably the former. He refused to receive a former letter sent by John, thereby declining to submit to his directions or acknowledge his authority, moreover circulating malicious slanders against the apostle, and exercising an undue, arbitrary, and pernicious influence ( | <p> ( '''''Διοτρεφής''''' , Jove-nourished), a person who seems to have been one of the false teachers condemned by the apostle John in his third epistle. A.D. cir. 90. He appears to have been a presbyter or dean con, probably the former. He refused to receive a former letter sent by John, thereby declining to submit to his directions or acknowledge his authority, moreover circulating malicious slanders against the apostle, and exercising an undue, arbitrary, and pernicious influence ( '''''Φιλοπρωτεύων''''' ) in the church ( 3 John 1:9-10). (See [[Gaius]]). Neander suggests ( ''Planting And Training'' , 2:73) that he may have been of an ultra-Pauline party, the forerunner of [[Marcion]] (q.v.). </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_2855" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_2855" /> == | ||
<p> '''''dı̄''''' -'''''ot´re''''' -'''''fēz''''' ( Διοτρεφής , ity and forbidding others from exercising the Christian hospitality which he himself refused to show. The words "who loveth to have the preëminence, among them" may indicate that he was a church official, abusing his position. </p> | <p> ''''' dı̄ ''''' - ''''' ot´re ''''' - ''''' fēz ''''' ( Διοτρεφής , ity and forbidding others from exercising the Christian hospitality which he himself refused to show. The words "who loveth to have the preëminence, among them" may indicate that he was a church official, abusing his position. </p> | ||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15497" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15497" /> == | ||
