...coming to Him, besought him, saying, Send her away, for she crieth after us. 24 But He, answering, said, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.12 25 But she, coming, worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. 26 But he, answering, said,...

...as He answered the woman (when she cried, " Lord.help me," with sincere and deep importunate need) " I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Did she depart? Oh, no! Her faith was strong, and her faith received that encouragement...

...sympathies reached far beyond his countrymen — to the whole world. To the Gentile woman to whom he said, " I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel," he gave, with the miracle of mercy, his blessing upon her spirit of religious faith (Matt....

...peculiar significancy, it is certainly much more likely to refer to those, of whom our Lord said, " I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel ;" and to whom St. Paul assures us, that St. Peter was especially the Apostle. In the same...

...turned to her, and said gravely, and in a manner as if intended to stop any farther application, " I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." This seemed a strange reply to come from the lips of Jesus, and to be addressed to one...

...We know not whence she is, and she seems determined to hang on till she is heard." — "But he said, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel ;" " and you know you are not one of them ; and what right have you to clamor thus ?" —...

...repeatedly rejected by our Lord as an unfit person to enjoy the blessing which she solicited, — (" I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel1-;" "I cannot take the children's bread, and cast it unto dogs1,") — shewed, by her persevering...

...there seems to be special reference to the Lord's mission to Israel, as Ho Himself afterwards said, " I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." This leads us to ask, What does the covenant engage for, as regards the literal seed and...

...we now, if I had but money, then I would do so and so. CCXXXVIII. Christ said to the heathen woman: I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel; yet afterwards he helped both her and her daughter; therefore a man might say: Christ here...

...disciples when interceding for her, whereby he seems to exclude her out of his commission. Ver. 24, " I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." The Jews were called sheep, but the Gentiles dogs. The Jews were indeed to have the first...