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Even the dogs (κα τα κυναρια). She took no offence at the implication of being a Gentile dog. The rather she with quick wit took C…
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes
And she said, Truth, Lord, and so on: "What you say is true. Let it be that the best food should be given to the children. Let the Jews ha…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs — The insertion of the conjunction “for” in the Greek gives this reply a force that is hard to…
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
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,…
Church Fathers
ChurchFathers
St. Jerome: Leaving the Scribes, Pharisees, and those critics, He passes into the regions of Tyre and Sidon so that He may he…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
Expositor'sBible Commentary
The woman’s answer is masterly. Those two words “but even” reveal immense wisdom and faith. She does not argue that her needs make her an exception…
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
Certainly, Lord. The woman’s reply showed that she was not hurried along by a blind or thoughtless impulse to offer a flat contradiction
John Gill
JohnGill
And she says, truth, Lord
She owns all that he had said to be true, that he was sent only to the lost sheep of the h…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
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…
Thomas Aquinas
ThomasAquinas
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 …
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A.T. Robertson
A.T.Robertson