THE case of the woman of Canaan wonderfully brings out the heart of God. She was one of an accursed race (“cursed is Canaan.”) That is where grace ever comes. She is an outcast, and she takes the place of a dog. Why not give up all hope? Because she abandons all title and claim in herself, but the need which casts itself on pure bounty; and there was, she asserted, an overflowing abundance of grace which could even give some supply to the dogs— “Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the master’s table.”
The Master could look beyond the children, and there was a fullness that did not leave even the dogs without provision. She knew God and Jesus ten thousand times better than the disciples around.
J. N. D.