27And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
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Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. …
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. …
For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
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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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