Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
Ver. 18. Purified in the temple] Therefore surely not profaning of it: unless they will say of me, as Diogenes did of Antipater (who being vicious, wore a white cloak, the ensign of innocence), that he did virtutis stragulam pudefacere, put honesty to an open shame: or unless they will concur in opinion with their utter enemy Florus, who calleth the temple at Jerusalem impiae gentis arcanum, libidinum sacrarium, &c. secret place of a wicked nation, a shrine of lust. Virgil.