3 John 1:11

11. Beloved Repeated from 3 John 1:2; 3 John 1:5, as now furnishing a monitory lesson from the narrative of Diotrephes’s conduct.

Evil… good The difference between Diotrephes and the apostle was not a mere question of party, or even of non-essential doctrine, but of intrinsic goodness and badness, of holiness and wickedness.

Doeth good Not the falsely regenerate in evil-doing, but he that doeth good is of God. This clearly implies that Diotrephes held to a Nicolaitan regeneration, allowing of a doing evil and yet being of God. This was a total depravation and falsification of Christianity.

Seen God As he is, the truly pure God, seen by the spiritual eye of true faith. The holiness of the Christian is at one with the holiness of the truly holy God.