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To: beebuster2000

the Syncho-Phoenician woman spoke to Jesus:

“Even the dogs eat the scraps under the table.”

However, I have always held this statement to be about the Gentiles (dogs)


29 posted on 05/18/2011 2:50:04 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

The term used was a much more pet like one than the normal reference to dogs in other places. In other words (as one pastor put it) “Doggy”.


166 posted on 05/18/2011 6:25:47 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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