MATTHEW 15:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.”
And he answered: it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs. Jesus' second response uses the children-and-dogs metaphor: the bread intended for the children of Israel is not to be thrown to the dogs. The dogs in the ancient Jewish idiom for Gentiles was a term of contempt; Jesus uses the diminutive (little dogs, household pets) which softens the contrast. The statement presents the woman with the full force of the ethnic boundary she is crossing.
Church Fathers on Matthew 15:26
aug hter was made whole from that very hour.
Leaving the Scribes and Pharisees and those cavillers, He passes into the parts of Tyre and Sidon, that He may heal the Tyrians and Sidonians; 'And Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.'
Tyre and Sidon were Gentile towns, for Tyre was the metropolis of the Chananaeans, and Sidon the boundary of the Chananaeans towards the north.
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