...particularly if they have been guilty of the additional crime of being of lower caste than themselves, as ' the filth of the world and the offscouring of all things.' And hence English people, who occupy official positions in India, who are surrounded by high-caste...

...persecution—to bless, when reviled ; to forbear, when persecuted ; to entreat, when defamed ; to be abased as the filth of the world, and the off-scouring of all things ;* to give no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed ; but in all things to approve...

...experienced. Not only was this distinguished servant of God " every where spoken "against;" and treated as "the filth of the world, and " the offscouring of all things," by unconverted Jews ^d Gentiles: the whole body of Jewish converts also *vere exceedingly prejudiced...

...apostles, who were the salt of the world, were hungry, thirsty, naked, buffetted, without habitation, made as the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things ! And all these things were ordered by divine sovereignty. We allow .that death must separate friends...

...his Apostles, who in imitation of their Master, were made (in the forcible language of St. Paul) " as the filth of the world, and the off-scouring of all things 3 /' Look to the character which our Saviour gives of pride, where he enumerates the moral defilements...

...; so that ye were, as one of you expressed, and all of ye experimentally found, Though ye were made as the filth of the world, and the off-scouring of all things, upon this account, —yet ye went on as zealously as ye set out.—Ye were not offended, nor ashamed...

...saints that were thus hated.(«?). We are here made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men; as the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things.(<r) Men separate us from their company, and reproach us, and cast out our names as evil:"(y)...

...had more of that holy life, and active diligence, which the serpentine, Cainish nature doth abhor, though I had with it the scorns of all about me, and...filth of the world, and the off-scouring of all things ! О that I had more of this derided diligence, and holy converse with the Lord, though my name were...

...his Apostles, who in imitation of their Master, were made (in the forcible language of St. Paul) " as the filth of the world, and the off-scouring of all things"." " 1 Cor. iv. 13. Look to the character which our Saviour gives of pride, where he enumerates the moral...

...blessed ; being persecuted, they meekly suffered it; being defamed, they entreated:" and though made as the filth of the world and the offscouring of all things continually, they took it patiently. They were only concerned to " give no offence in any thing, that...