But he answered and said, It is not meet, that is, it is not fitting or proper.

Children's bread. The Jews considered them…

To cast it to dogs—The word used was a diminutive, and as such, it pointed not to the wild, unclean beasts that haunt the streets …

Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread,…

St. Jerome: Leaving the Scribes, Pharisees, and those critics, He passes into the regions of Tyre and Sidon so that He may he…

The woman knelt before Jesus and cried, as only the mother of an afflicted child could, “Lord, help me!” Jesus made certain that she grasped the hi…

It is not fitting. Christ’s reply is harsher than ever, and one would think that he intended by it to cut off all hope. For not only does …

But he answered, and said
To the woman, as the Persic version reads it, and the sense requires:

The dark corners of the country, the most remote, will share Christ's influences; afterwards, the ends of the earth will see His salvation. The dis…

Above, the sufficiency of His teaching was shown, because it did not require the observance of the Law. Here He shows that it is not restricted to …