when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.
Thou hast made us offscouring and refuse among the peoples.
Up to this word they listened to him; then they lifted up their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he ought not to live.”
in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,