Matthew Poole and continuators on 3 John 1:10

10 Wherefore if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

This was probably some Church of which Gaius was. Dio[illegible: 1 letter]rephes, one who had received, or usurped some Office or Authority in it, to so ill a purpose, as when he had no Inclination to be hospitable himself to fellow-Christians, prevented others from being so; and upon pretence of the little differences of these Iewish, from the Gentile Christians, excluded them their Communion.