10. When they had finished I began speaking to them
make a disturbance nor behave in this rude way.
But if they choose to they can listen quietly, or if more important business prevents them let them go away.
I suggest that we should retire somewhere and, having had a rest, finish our argument." Trypho agreed to follow this plan and we turned off and went into the space in the middle of the Colonnade, but two of his companions, joking and laughing at our earnestness, went off. When we reached that place where there are stone seats on each side, Trypho's companions sat down on one of them and one of the men started a conversation about the war in Judaea, and they began talking among themselves.
II. The Old Testament Law was Destined to be Superseded by another Covenant.
10. When they had finished I began speaking to them again thus:
"My friends, is the only fault which you have to find with us that we do not live according to the law, and are not circumcised in our flesh like your forefathers and do not keep the sabbath as you do?
Or do imputations against our life and behaviour circulate among you?
What I mean is, do you also believe about us that we are allegedly cannibals and that after a banquet we extinguish the lights and have orgies of unnatural intercourse; or do you only condemn in us the fact that we are attached to doctrines of the sort which you have described and that we believe in a creed which is, as you think, a false one?"
"This last point is what amazes us," said Trypho, "but as for the popular assertions, they are not worth believing, because they are alien from human nature.
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