John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 15:26
But he answered, and said ,.... To the woman, as the Persic version reads it, and the sense requires: 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... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 15:25
Then came she and worshipped him ,.... She followed the disciples into the house; and perceiving another repulse by Christ's answer to them, she pushes on, through all discouragements; her faith grows stronger, and her importunity greater: she had called Christ Lord, and the son of David before, but now she worships him as God: Saying, Lord help me ; a short petition, but what fully and fitly expressed her case: the object she prays unto is the Lord, by which she owns his sovereignty,... read more