Again: "It is evident from the above-mentioned epistles of Paul, that, to the great mortification of the apostle, they insinuated themselves very early into the church." (60.) The writer does not wish to be understood that the disturbances created in the church were confined to Corinth, and that Apollos was the only one who taught during the life of Paul the doctrines of the Alexandrian school. Wherever Paul had founded a church, there the Therapeutæ element was at work. Apollos, by his superior eloquence and learning, was distinguished from a host of agitators, and called forth the special notice of Paul. element was at work. Apollos, by his superior eloquence and learning, was distinguished from a host of agitators, and called forth the special notice of Paul. It is safe to say that it was the Therapeutæ who caused the troubles in the churches in Paul's time and afterwards, because no other sect or society was so extended, and had the power to make the disturbance so universal. Paul could complain of no other, and it was this sect that turned all Asia against him. There is no way to account for the sudden and wonderful increase of Christians in a few years before Paul's death, unless we can refer the cause to the sudden conversion of the Therapeutæ to the new religion. When they are suddenly lost to sight, the small churches of Paul have grown great in numbers, and spread over Europe and Asia in an incredibly short space of time. Before going to press, the writer came into the possession of the works of Michaelis, where we find the following passage: "But even before Apollos had received the instructions of Aquila and Priscilla, he taught publicly in the synagogue at Ephesus concerning the Messiah. Hence it is not improbable that the Essenes introduced themselves into the church at Ephesus by means of Apollos, who came from Alexandria, in the neighborhood of which city, according to Philo, the Essenes were not only numerous but were held in high estimation." (Vol. iv. p. 85.) It would seem from this that Apollos only continued to do at Corinth what he first began at Ephesus.