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1 | Matt 15:26-27 What did Jesus mean? | Matt 15:26 | dispen4ever | 208796 | ||
I'm curious as to how this question will be answered. I'm hoping that the "seasoned answerers" :-D don't jump on it too soon. To whom is Jesus speaking, and what does His observation mean? Please point to any supporting scripture for your response. "But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the master's table." (Matthew 15:26-27). |
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2 | Matt 15:26-27 What did Jesus mean? | Matt 15:26 | stjohn | 208797 | ||
Hi dispen4ever: I think John Gill says it quite well. "it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs;" which he said, to try her faith the more, and make it the more illustrious; and that not so much from his own sense of things, as in the language of the Jewish people, and which she might not be a stranger to. By "the children", are meant the Jews, to whom the adoption belonged; who, as a nation and people, were the children of God in a large sense; being distinguished by many blessings and favours, which others had not, and being under the more peculiar care and notice of God; not that all of them were the children of God by special grace: by "the bread"; which belonged to them, is meant the external ministry of the word, and the miracles of Christ wrought among them: and particularly such outward favours which related to the good of the bodies of men, by healing their diseases, and dispossessing them of devils: and by "the dogs" are designed the Gentiles, so called by the Jews in a way of contempt, because of their ignorance, idolatry, and impurity." "yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table." "She suggests that though the Gentiles were but dogs, and she one of them; yet their common Lord and Master had a propriety in them, and they in him; and were to be maintained and fed, and ought to live, though not in such fulness of favours and blessings, as the Jews, the children of God: nor did she desire their affluence, only that a crumb of mercy might be given her, that her poor daughter might be healed; which was but a small favour, in comparison of the numerous ones he heaped upon the children, the Jews: nor would this be any more detrimental to them, than it is to the children, for the dogs, under the table, to eat of the crumbs that fall."--John Gill From: http://www.freegrace.net/gill/ God bless John |
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