Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; being defamed, we entreat; we are become as it were the offscourings of the world."[79] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V But here, at least, you say he interprets the world to be the God thereof, when he says: "We are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men."[285] Origen Commentary on John Book I Paul shows that the world is something more than men when he writes to the Corinthians in his first Epistle:[125]