Truth, Lord; yet the dogs (RV 'Yea, Lord: for even the dogs') eat the crumbs, etc.] The ancients sometimes used, instead of a napkin, soft pieces of bread to wipe their hands upon. These fragments were then thrown to the dogs. Masters'] i.e. the Jews. The woman is humble. She is willing to be called a dog, and to acknowledge the Jews as masters.

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