¹¹ To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.^{(A) 12} We work hard with our own hands.^(B) When we are cursed, we bless;^(C) when we are persecuted,^(D) we endure it; ¹³ when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage^(E) of the world—right up to this moment.