...besought him to send her away, because she cried after them ; but he answered her at length, and said, "I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." This was discouraging to her, as she was a Gentile ; but it was to try her faith, and by...

...we now, if I had but money, then I would do so and so. ccxxxvin. 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...

...Christ was, as is plain from the parable, an offer of the kingdom of heaven to the Jews : hence he said, I am not sent, but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And until the Jews had wholly rejected the offer, and consummated that rejection by murdering...

...Samaritans enter ye not: but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matth. x. 5, 6). " I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matth. xv. 24). " Verily I say unto you, that ye which have followed me, in the regeneration...

...seem to amount to a refusal of the petition which before He had only seemed not to regard. He said, " I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Oh, miserable woman, offspring of an accursed race cease thy unavailing prayers — He...

...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....

...wilt," said the Lord. " If it was a question of thy right, I tell thee, thou hast a right to nothing. I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and thou art not one of these sheep." But it is to grace that this woman addressed herself,...

...? 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 hare you to clamour thus?' ' Then...

...her request, begged him to send her away. Without heeding them, he turned to the woman, and said, " I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel ; " " let the children," meaning the Jews, " first be filled ; after that the dogs, or Gentiles,...

...be viewed as an embodiment of that intimation, — as a prophecy by deeds. He says in Matt. xv. 24 : "I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel ;" but if, nevertheless, He purposely makes His abode in the territory of Tyre and Sidon...