3 John 1:10 Cross References - Mace

¹⁰ for which reason, when I come, I shall animadvert upon his conduct, and the malicious aspersions he casts upon us: not contented with this, he will neither receive the brethren himself, nor suffer those who are better inclin'd, to do it; but drives them out of the church.

²² blessed are you, when men shall hate you, discard you, reproach you, and treat you as infamous, for your attachment to the son of man.

²² his parents said this, because they were afraid of the Jews: for the Jews had agreed in this, that if any man did own him for the Messias, he should be excommunicated.

³⁴ they answered, you were a vicious fellow from your very birth, and do you pretend to preach to us? and then they excommunicated him. ³⁵ Jesus having heard that they had excommunicated him; and meeting with the man, he said to him, do you believe on the son of God?

¹ we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife. ² this you have made a matter of levity, instead of being concern'd in discarding him that has done such an action. ³ as for me, though I am absent in person, yet being present by my authority, with regard to him that has committed this fact, I am come to the same resolution, as if I was present, ⁴ that is, when you are assembled, and I virtually there, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵ to deliver him up to satan, to suffer corporal punishment, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ I who am a person of a mean presence, when among you, but exert myself upon your account, when absent; I Paul intreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, not to let me exert that authority, ² when I am present, which I think to exercise against some, who censure me, as if I was actuated by worldly views. ³ for tho' I am involv'd with the world, I don't sustain the war with their poor arts: ⁴ our military arms are not so defective, but divinely effectual to demolish all their ramparts; ⁵ to level all the barriers they contrive for obstructing the divine doctrine, and to make their pride captive to the authority of Christ. ⁶ and I am prepar'd, when you have discharg'd your duty, to make examples of the rest for their disobedience. ⁷ Do ye judge of things by the outward appearance? if any man is confident in himself, that he is Christ's, let him from himself conclude too, that as he is Christ's, even so are we. ⁸ for though I should more than ever magnify my authority, which the Lord hath given us for your improvement, and not for your ruin, I should have no reason to be ashamed; ⁹ but that I may not seem as if I would strike a terror in you by letters: ¹⁰ (for 'tis objected that my letters are weighty and powerful, but my bodily presence weak, and my preaching ¹¹ contemptible) let such a one depend upon this, that the same authority which appear'd in my letters, when I was absent, will appear in fact, when I am present.

² I told you once before, and now being absent I write to forewarn you and all that have sinned, that when I shall arrive, I will not spare them;

⁵ My dear child, whatever you do in behalf of the brethren, and of those who are strangers, is commendable.