Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord—or, as the same word is rendered in Matthew 15:27. "Truth, Lord."
yet the dogs eat of the children's crumbs—which fall from their master's table" (Matthew 15:27). "I thank Thee, O blessed One, for that word! That's my whole case. Not of the children? True. A dog? True also: Yet the dogs under the table are allowed to eat of the children's crumbs—the droppings from their master's full table: Give me that, and I am content: One crumb of power and grace from Thy table shall cast the devil out of my daughter." Oh, what lightning quickness, what reach of instinctive ingenuity, do we behold in this heathen woman!
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