offscourings 

  1. 名詞
offscouring複數: 被驅逐的人, 被拋棄的人
廢物, 垃圾
渣滓, 汙物

    
                        
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                                Numerous, large and respectable judicatories of the church, who have passed resolutions in favour of abolition are held up to odium, as "the offscourings of all things," and as "turners of the world up side down" 2.                            
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                                He goes on to speak of the hardships he endured, the thirst, the hard work the opposition, the homelessness, the abuse, and concludes 'we have become, and still are, the refuse of the world, the offscourings of everything (1 Cor. 4:8-13).                            
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                                While on earth Moses and Elijah had a very bad character , especially were their presence and testimony construed as "hurtful to kings and provinces." They were counted as the " offscourings of the earth;" they were not deemed "fit to live""malefactors," identified with their suffering Master.                            
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                                And, "(I think) God hath selected us the apostles (as) hindmost, like men appointed to fight with wild beasts; since we have been made a spectacle to this world, both to angels and to men: "And, "We have been made the offscourings of this world, the refuse of all: "And, "Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Christ Jesus our Lord?                            
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                                The Jacksonian Democrat then proceeds to a most scorching review of the consequences of this policy to "our noble old Democratic party." He shows how it utterly degraded it; how "the scum and the dregs of society were sluiced for years through the public offices into the managing committees of the great political parties." "From the offscourings of the public offices came our former leaders and their tools, the present Breckinridge gang.                            
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