Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 3 John 1:9

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 3 John 1:9 - 1:9

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 3 John 1:9 - 1:9

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1:2 - 1:2
1:3 - 1:3
1:4 - 1:4
1:5 - 1:5
1:6 - 1:6
1:7 - 1:7
1:8 - 1:8
1:9 - 1:9
1:10 - 1:10
1:11 - 1:11
1:12 - 1:12
1:13 - 1:13
1:14 - 1:14

I wrote - The oldest manuscripts add “something”: a communication, probably, on the subject of receiving the brethren with brotherly love (3Jo 1:8, 3Jo 1:10). That Epistle was not designed by the Spirit for the universal Church, or else it would have been preserved.

unto the church - of which Gaius is a member.

loveth ... pre-eminence - through ambition. Evidently occupying a high place in the Church where Gaius was (3Jo 1:10).

among them - over the members of the Church.

receiveth us not - virtually, namely, by not receiving with love the brethren whom we recommended to be received (3Jo 1:8, 3Jo 1:10; compare Mat 10:40).