3 John 1:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

3 JOHN CHAPTER 1 3 John 1:1-4 The apostle, after a kind salutation to Gaius, testifieth his joy in his piety, 3 John 1:5-8 commending his hospitality towards the preachers of the gospel. 3 John 1:9,10 He censureth Diotrephes, and threateneth him for his ambitious opposition. 3 John 1:11 The ill example of such is not to be followed. 3 John 1:12 He beareth testimony to the good character of Demetrius. 3 John 1:13,14 He hopeth to see Gaius shortly, and concludeth with salutations. Ver. 1,2. This Gaius was well known by the apostle, not only to be a stedfast professor of the truly Christian, uncorrupted faith, (which is implied in his avowing his love to him in the truth, or upon the Christian account), but to be so improved and well-grown a Christian, that he reckons he might well make the prosperous state of his soul the measure of all the other prosperity he could wish unto him.