Gaius my host, and of the whole church, greets you. Erastus the treasurer of the city greets you, and Quartus a brother.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
When you hear that Gaius was Paul’s host, admire him not only for his generosity but also for his strictness of life. For if he were not worthy of Paul’s standards, the apostle would never have lodged there. Paul mentions Erastus’s title with the purpose of showing that the gospel had taken hold among the great as well as among the rest of the population…. To a man who hears the Word, riches are not a hindrance, nor the cares of government, nor anything else of that kind.
