26But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
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But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. …
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-28)We have here that famous story of Christ’s casting the devil out of the woman of Canaan’s daughter ; it has something in it singular and very surprising, and which looks favourably upon the poor Gentiles, and is an earnest of the mercy which Christ had in store for them. Here is a gleam of that light which was to lighten the Gentiles , Luke 2:32. Christ came to his own, and his own received him no…
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