“Et ait illi : Propter hunc sermonem vade : exiit dæmonium a filia tua.”
“And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.”
“Then Jesus told her, “Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.””
“He said to her, “For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter.””
“And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter.”
II. His cure was solemn, and some of the circumstances of it were singular.
Verses 24-30 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. This sent her to Christ. His saying, Let the children first be filled, shows that there was mercy for the Gentiles, and not far off. She spoke, not as making light of the mercy, but magnifying the abundance of miraculous cures among the Jews, in comparison with which a single cure was but as a crumb. Thus, while proud Pharisees are left by the blessed Saviour, he manifests his compassion to poor humbled sinners, who look to him for children's bread. He still goes about to seek and save the lost.