The observation, thus applied, to what is said of the "_Jews of Asia_," will be seen to be applicable, and, with equal propriety, to what is said about his being charged with "bringing _Greeks into the temple_:" and, in particular, about his being supposed to have brought in "_The Ephesian Trophimus_:" and moreover, what may, in this last case, be observable, is--that this about the Greeks is expressly stated as being a _further_ charge, distinct from the main one: nor yet is it so much as stated, that, by any such importation, to what degree so ever offensive, any such effect, as that signified by the word _pollution_ was produced. Not altogether destitute of probability seems the supposition, that these two circumstances--about the Jews of Asia, and about Trophimus--may have been thrown in, by this adherent of Paul's, for the purpose of throwing a cloud of confusion and obscurity over the real charge: and if so, the two circumstances, with the addition of the three different defences, put into the hero's mouth, on the three several occasions of the endeavour,--must be acknowledged to have been employed, not altogether without success. Here then closes that part of the evidence, which, to the purpose of a judgment, to be passed at this distance of time from the facts, may be considered as so much _circumstantial_ evidence: in the next section may be seen that part, which comes under the denomination of direct evidence. SECTION 2. PROOF FROM THE EPISTLES. We come now to the _direct_ evidence: that evidence--all of it from Paul's own pen:--all of it from his own Epistles. It consists in those "teachings to forsake Moses," which will be now furnished, in such unequivocal terms and such ample abundance, in and by those fruits of his misty and crafty eloquence:--in the first place, in his letter to the disciples, which he had made, or hoped to make at Rome:--date of it, according to the received chronology, about four years anterior to the time here in question:--in the next place, in two successive letters to the disciples, whom, it appears, he had made at Corinth:--both these addresses, set down, as belonging to the same year as the one to the Romans. Moreover, in his so often mentioned Epistle to the Galatians, matter of the same tendency is to be found. But, this last being, according to that same chronology, of a date posterior by some years to the time, at which the charge of having preached the sort of doctrine in question was, on the present occasion, made,--it belongs not to the present question, and is therefore left unemployed. And, in the same case, is some matter that might be found in his Epistles to the Thessalonians. 1. First then as to the Mosaic "law and customs," taken in the aggregate. On this subject, see in the first place what the oath-taker had said to his _Romans_.