Confessio fidei communi Ecclesiarum

we would more willingly remain silent, enduring any bitterness, than initiate any defense: especially since it is our lot to be agitated by the malice and ingratitude of men, so that we may lift our eyes upward, where a certain reward is laid up for us. And in truth, we do not ignore that God has imposed that perpetual law upon His Church, so that those who hope in Him are not only pressed by hardships, but are also condemned with infamy. We are in no way superior to the Apostles, who were held as 1 Cor 4:13. the offscourings of this world: therefore it is just to lower our heads and compose ourselves in their imitation. Indeed, when long ago the fathers under the Law began to bear the reproaches of Christ, when He was not yet crucified,

1 Tim 4:10.