Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Corinthians 1:14

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Corinthians 1:14 - 1:14

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14. Κρίσπον καὶ Γάϊον. The special honour of baptism by the hands of St Paul seems to have been accorded to Crispus, because he was ‘the chief ruler of the synagogue’ (Act 18:8). Gaius, ‘mine host, and of the whole Church’ (Rom 16:23), must not be confounded with Gaius of Derbe (Act 20:4), nor with the Macedonian Gaius mentioned in Act 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 fail to notice also that the Corinthian Church was by no means an exclusively Gentile community. See Act 18:12-13.