(102) But I leave this matter; for the proper way of confuting fools in not to use bare words, but to appeal to the things themselves that make against them. Now, then , all such as ever saw the construction of our temple, of what nature it was, know well enough how the purity of it was never to be profaned; (103) for it had four several courts surrounded with passages, everyone of which had by our law a peculiar degree of separation from the rest. Into the first court everybody was allowed to go, even foreigners, and none but women, during their courses, were prohibited to pass through it; (104) all the Jews went into the second court, as well as their wives, when they were free from all uncleanness; into the third court went in the Jewish men, when they were clean and purified; into the fourth went the priests, having on their sacerdotal garments;