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.
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source-manifest/isbe— ISBE (PD)