Crispus and Gaius The special honour seems to have been accorded to Crispus of baptism by the hands of St Paul, because he was -the chief ruler of the synagogue" (Acts 18:8). Gaius, -mine host, and of the whole Church" (Romans 16:23) must not be confounded with Gaius of Derbe (Acts 20:4), nor with the Macedonian Gaius mentioned in Acts 19:29. Gaius or Caius was a very common Roman name. The Epistle to the Romans was written at Corinth. Paley (Horae Paulinae, 1st Epistle to the Corinthians 8) remarks on the minute yet undesigned agreement between the Epistles and the Acts. We must not foil to notice also that the Corinthian Church was by no means an exclusively Gentile community. See Acts 18:12-13.

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