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Selected Verse: Mark 7:28 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Mr 7:28 |
King James |
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord--or, as the same word is rendered in Mat 15:27. "Truth, Lord."
yet the dogs eat of the children's crumbs--which fall from their master's table" (Mat 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! |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
And she
She, however, answered, saying, "True, Lord! And yet the little dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs." (Rom 11:24); (Eph 2:11-22). |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Mark adds under the table.
The children's crumbs
See on Mat 15:26. This would indicate that the little dogs were pet dogs of the children, their masters. |
27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.