He answered, “It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”
But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.”
She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”
“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;
We ourselves are Jews by birth and not gentile sinners,
remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.