The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
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Interpretation
Christ never put any from him that fell at his feet, which a poor trembling soul may do. As she was a good woman, so a good mother.
Glossary
- Phoenicia Place
- Properly Phoenix a palm-tree (as in the R. V. ), a town with a harbour on the southern side of Crete ( Acts 27:12 ), west of the Fair Havens. It is now called Lutro. Modern identification: Tyre.