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GAIUS.—This name is mentioned in five places of NT. One Gaius was St. Paul’s host at Corinth, converted and baptized by him (Rom_16:23, 1Co_1:14). He was perhaps the same as ‘Gaius of Derbe’ who accompanied the Apostle from Greece to Asia (Act_20:4); if so, he would be a native of Derbe, but a dweller at Corinth. The Gaius of Macedonia, St. Paul’s ‘companion in travel’ who was seized in the riot at Ephesus (Act_19:29), and the Gaius addressed by St. John (3Jn_1:1), were probably different men.
A. J. Maclean.