preeminence

For that which befalleth the sonnes of men, befalleth beastes, euen one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea they haue all one breath, so that a man hath no preheminence aboue a beast; for all is vanitie.

1611 marginal notePsal.49.21. Chap. 2.16.

And hee is the head of the body, the Church: who is the beginning, the first borne from the dead, that in all things he might haue the preeminence:

1611 marginal noteOr, among all.

I wrote vnto the Church, but Diotrephes, who loueth to haue the preeminence among them, receiueth vs not.