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I rejoiced greatly (echarēn lian). As in 2Jo 1:4; Phi 4:10, not epistolary aorist, but reference to his emotions at the good tidings about Gaius.
When brethren came (erchomenōn adelphōn). Genitive absolute with present middle participle of erchomai, and so with marturountōn (bare witness, present active participle of martureō). Present participle here denotes repetition, from time to time.
To the truth (tēi alētheiāi). Dative case. “As always in the Johannine writings, ‘truth’ covers every sphere of life, moral, intellectual, spiritual” (Brooke).
Even as thou walkest in truth (kathōs su en alētheiāi peripateis). “Thou” in contrast to Diotrephes (3Jo 1:9) and others like him. On peripateō see 1Jo 1:6 and on en alētheiāi see 2Jo 1:4.