Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.
Thou didst set us the offscouring and despising in the midst of peoples.
And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voices, saying, Take away such a one from the earth: for it is not suitable for him to live.
Through glory and ignominy, through slander and applause: as erring, and true;
By which also the figure, immersion, now saves us (not by laying aside of the filth of the flesh, but the question of a good. consciousness toward God,) by the rising up of Jesus Christ: