Gaius (II)

II. GAIUS, to whom St. John wrote his third Epistle, was, in the opinion of several writers, the same as Gaius, St. Paul’s Disciple, and his host at Corinth. Others think, that Gaius, to whom St. John addresses his third Epistle, was he who is mentioned in the Acts xx. 4. who was at Derbe in Lycaonia, and consequently is very different from Gaius the Macedonian. The Constitutions of the Apostles imply, that St. John established one Gaius in the bishoprick of Pergamus; and the author of Athanas. Synop. p. 155.the additions to St. Athanasius’s Synopsis, seems to believe, that the Style of St. John’s Gospel was Gaius’s, who was St. Paul’s host. It is much more probable, that this was Gaius of Derbe, whom we are speaking of in this article.

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