MDMD(8) Christ's true Pity

[Jeremy Osner]

Sojourner wrote:
> 
> Here is the KJV:
> 
> The Gospel According to Matthew
> Chapter 15
> 
> [21] Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
> [22] And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried
> unto him, saying, Have mercy on me,
...
> [25] Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
> [26] But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread,
> and to cast it to dogs.
> [27] And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall
> from their masters' table.

Clearly Christ was suffering from a linguistic confusion: he must have
thought the "woman of Canaan" was a "canine woman".

Jeremy