Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 4:13

13 Being defamed , we intreat : We are made as the filth of the world, and are the off-scouring of all things unto this day .

We are blasphemed, Gr. that is, spoken evil of, which is the same with desamed in our language, men speak all manner of evil of us to take away our reputation: but

we intreat God for them. The word signifieth to exhort, intreat, comfort, we exercise our selves in all pious and charitable offices toward them, who are most uncharitable toward us.

Here are two words used, which signifie the most vile, abject, contemptible things in the world, excrements, sweepings of houses. The Apostle by these two words signifies, that no persons could be more base, vile, and contemptible than they were, nothing more despised, or in less esteem: he speaketh not this as complaining, or in any discontent at what he saw was the will of God concerning them; but to shew them the difference betwixt the Apostles, and them, and their Teachers, and possibly reflecting upon them, as being in some degree guilty of this scorn and contempt of them, or at least more than they ought, neglecting them under these mean and afflictive circumstances.

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