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But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters` table."
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Humble Agreement, Wise Appeal
Commentators are united in praising the woman's response. She doesn't argue with Jesus or take offense. Instead, she humbly agrees with His statement ('Truth, Lord') and then cleverly uses his own analogy to her advantage. Scholars describe her reply as 'masterly' and 'wise,' showing that true faith doesn't dispute God's terms but finds a plea for mercy within them.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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…
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Baptist
Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
When the children drop the crumbs, then the little dogs which …
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…
16th Century
Protestant
Certainly, Lord. The woman’s reply showed that she was not hurried along by a blind or thoughtless impulse to offer a flat contradiction
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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…
13th Century
Catholic
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 …
