And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.
27. Certainly, Lord. The woman’s reply showed that she was not hurried along by a blind or thoughtless impulse to offer a flat contradiction “Pour se rebequer et heurter directement;” — “to give a saucy and open contradiction.” to what Christ had said.
Christ left them justly, for willful prejudice against the Gospel provokes Him to withdraw His light. Yet into that dark corner near Tyre and Sidon He came with mercy in store, showing that the ends of the earth shall see His salvation even when the favored reject Him.
AI summary
Commenting on Matthew 15:21-28
And she saith, truth, Lord,.... She owns all that he had said to be true, that he was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel: that she was indeed but a dog, a poor sinful creature, and unworthy of any favour; and that it was not right and fitting that all the children's bread should be taken from them and given...