“And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.”
Then he told her, for such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter — for such a reply — the response is the commendation that the faith behind the reply has earned. The healing is granted: the demon has left your daughter, stated in the perfect tense — the healing has already occurred, while the woman is still present in the house. The Syrophoenician woman's faith — Gentile faith in the Jewish Messiah — has produced the healing of her daughter at a distance, without Jesus going to the house or touching the child.
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