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TROPHIMUS

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a disciple of St. Paul, and an Ephesian by birth. He came
from Ephesus to Corinth with the Apostle, and kept him company in his
whole journey from Corinth to Jerusalem, A. D. 58, Acts xx, 4. When St.
Paul was in the temple there, the Jews laid hold of him, crying out,
“Men of Israel, help; this is the man that teacheth all men every where
against the people, and the law, and this place; and farther, brought
Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place,” Acts
xxi, 28, 29. And this they said, because certain Jews of Ephesus having
seen Trophimus with St. Paul in the city, whom they looked upon as a
Gentile, imagined that St. Paul had introduced him into the temple. The
whole city was immediately in an uproar, and St. Paul was secured.
Trophimus afterward accompanied St. Paul; for that Apostle writes to
Timothy, that he had left Trophimus sick at Miletus, 2 Tim. iv, 20.
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