I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. I wrote. 'Aleph (') A B add х ti (G5100)], 'something:' a communication, probably as to receiving the brethren with brotherly love (3 John 1:8; 3 John 1:10). That letter was not designed by the Spirit for the universal Church, else it would have been preserved.
Unto the church - to which Caius belongs. Loveth ... pre-eminence - through ambition. Evidently occupying a high place in that church: a Judaizer, and so opposed to the missionaries who preached the doctrines of grace to the Gentiles (3 John 1:10). Among them - over the members.
Receiveth us not - virtually, by not receiving with love the brethren whom we recommended (cf. Matthew 10:40).