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T H E K IN G ’ S BU S INE SS COMMENTS FROM SUNDRY SOURCES
By K. L. Brooks.
“ The only person who won a dialectical victory with the Wisdom o f God.”—“ Nobly, eagerly, modestly, she used this confusion, inferring that her place was not among vile dogs without, but the domesticated dogs under the table.”—“The bread she craved need not be torn from hungry children.” v. 29. Go thy way. “ No case is too des perate for prayer.”—“ Perseverance will surely find that our Lord delights to be gracious.”—“ Thus Jesus declares in action as by word, that by true faith, all distinc tion between Jew and Gentile, ceremonially clean and unclean, fades out.”—“This crumb won from Jesus by a heathen woman’s shamelessness, Luke 11: 8 , pertinacy, 18:2-5, faith, 7 :9, remains isolated. He at once returned to the policy of feeding the chil dren first.”—Camb. Bible. v. 32. Deaf and impediment. “The speech o f a deaf man is often a babble since it is by hearing that one learns to articulate.” — -Took'him aside, etc. “It is necessary that we be freed from all distraction if we would be healed by him.”—“In another case he led a blind man out o f the town, 8 :23, probably to fix undistracted attention on himself.’V-i-“As this patient could hear nothing, our Lord uses symbolical actions upon each o f the organs affected. Cf. John 5:6; Matt. 20:32; 9:28.” v. 34. He looked and sighed. “ Canst thou work without looking heavenward. Dost thou not need to bring God to thy side? O man, self trusting, thou hast failed because in the midst o f work, no time was found for an upward look.”—Joseph Par ker. “ He sighed over the wreck which sin had brought and the malice o f the devil in deforming the fair creatures o f God’s orig inal creation.”—“Jesus had all the human qualifications needful for a Savior of men. His sympathies ever responded to the necessities o f human life.”—“ The weakness o f the sigh, was followed by the strength of royalty ( ‘Be opened’ ). Deity and humanity meet in Christ.”
T T E could not be hid (v. 24). “When ^ Jesus is in the house, no one can hide it.”—“Wherever Jesus is in the power of His preached Word, He cannot be hid, and He will draw the broken-hearted to Himself.” v. 25. An unclean spirit. “ An unclean spirit was the occasion o f this mother hear ing o f Christ. Some unfortunate and pain ful thing may be the means o f leading one to Him.”—“ The greatest blessing one can ask of Christ for their children, is that He would break the power o f Satan over them and make them temples o f the Holy Ghost.” —“ Demon possession as distinguished from insanity is an established fact. There was a virulent outbreak o f it when the Son of God was manifested to destroy the works o f the devil, 1 John 3 : 8 , for Satan mustered all his forces for the great fight.”—Torrey. v. 26. A Syrophenician. “One outside the covenant- promises, Matt. 15:22, approaches him by the title “ Son of David” , as if she, a Canaanite outcast, was an heir to Israel’s promises; Faith conquered and made her a spiritual child of Abraham, Gal. 3 :26, 14.”—“ Go to Matt. 15:23-25 for impor tant links in the dialogue omitted by Mark (cf. Matt. 10:5). v. 27. The children first filled. “The children are Jews but “first” implies that others will have their turn, John 10:16; 12:32; 17:20.”—Plummer. “Where Christ knows the faith o f a suppliant to be strong, he sometimes delights to put it to the stretch.” Cast it to “Lit.-Doggies, not outside scavengers but household pets.” v. 28. Dogs eat children’s crumbs. “ It is touching to reflect how impregnable was Jesus in controversy with the keenest of Jewish intellects, with how sharp a weapon he rent their snares and retorted their argu ments to their confusion, and then to observe him preparing the way for an argu ment which would lead him, gladly won, captive to a heathen’s and a woman’s impor tunate and trustful sagacity.”—Chadwick.
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