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Concise Bible Dictionary: D
By:
George A. Morrish
Narrator:
Chris Genthree
Duration:
17sec
3 John 9
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One in the church, otherwise unknown, who loved to have the pre-eminence: he refused to receive certain brethren, and excommunicated others (
3 John 1:9
9
I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. (3 John 9)
). Thus early was “clericalism” manifested in the church.
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