A comparison of the letter to the Romans with the Acts of the Apostles and other epistles furnishes a number of unmediated coincidences, which truth of its own accord provides. The sixteenth chapter reveals some examples. Verses 21 to 23 read, “Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sasipater, my kinsmen, salute you. I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you, in the Lord. Gaius, mine host, and of the whole church saluteth you” . . . “and Quartus, a brother.”
We see later reasons from the epistle itself, for believing that the statement in the end subscription that the Roman letter was written from Corinth (not, of course the product of inspiration) is incorrect. Acts 20:4 shows that, when the apostle left Greece on his last journey to Jerusalem, “there accompanied him into Asia, Sopater of Berea, and, of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tuchicus and Trophimus.” It is noteworthy that, of the seven brethren mentioned in this verse, only Timotheus, Sopater (Sosipater), and Gaius sent their greetings to the Roman church. It is possible that only these three knew the believers in Rome, a natural mark of the genuineness of the narratives.
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One