Trinity College, Oxford.
_Diotrophes._--Can any of your readers say, on what authority the Abbé
Masscot calls Diotrophes, mentioned in 3 St. John, ver. 9., Bishop of
Corinth. The Abbé has left the Roman Church, and joined the branch of
Mr. Henry Drummond's Church in France, and is the editor of _Le Recueil
Catholique_, to advocate the cause of the new church. The passage to
which I refer is in the October Number, p. 208., and is given as a proof
of his theory: "L'Apostolat supplanté, absorbé par l'Episcopat;" this
first order of ministry in the Christian Church having been in abeyance,
till it was revived in the person of Mr. Drummond and the other eleven
apostles of that Church! In Mant and D'Oyley's Bible it is said that
Diotrophes is unknown; and Grotius and Doddridge entertain different
opinions about him, but neither speak of him as being a bishop.