...Gentiles knew no more than they did his promises ; and it was therefore, the Lord said to Israel, " I am not sent, save to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. "§ He had not yet thrown the children's bread to the dogs, nor commanded his disciples...

...we may find, in the answer of our Lord Himself, some guide to this hidden meaning ; when He says, " I am not sent, save to the lost sheep of the House of Israel." That the Jews might have not even the smallest shadow of occasion of murmuring against...

...whether he should employ them for the benefit of a foreigner. Such is the meaning of the answer, " I am not sent, save to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." The Syrophenician woman was not deterred by this unpropitious declaration; she reiterated...

...synagogue represented the Jewish people, on account of whom our LORD had come, since Himself says, " I am not sent save to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." But that woman who had the bloody flux prefigured the Church of the Gentiles, to whom CHRIST...

...her," they say, " for she crieth aloud after us." Our Lord's answer was a death-blow to her hopes. " I am not sent, save to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." In His Own Person, it pleased our Lord, to preach to the Jews only ; us, His other sheep...

...came to Algin's mind, as this old-school way of managing a parish took possession of it, the words, " I am not sent save to the lost sheep of the house of Israel " — " The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." He walked on, musingly,...

...exclusive doctrine, which appeared to confine the blessing to a favoured few : the Lord Jesus Christ said, " I am not sent save to the lost sheep of the house of Israel," and though properly understood there is nothing very severe in it, yet the sentence must...

...her," they say, " for she crieth aloud after us." Our Lord's answer was a death-blow to her hopes. " I am not sent, save to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." In His Own Person, it pleased our Lord, to preach to the Jews only ; us, His other * Kaxwy...

...Christ ; but was it right to confer the same privilege on Gentiles, respecting whom our Lord himself had said, " I am not sent save to the lost sheep of the house of Israel?" His mind had already been partly prepared to admit them by the vision of the great sheet...

...remembered that there was an aspect in which His life and ministry on earth was national, since He Himself said : " I am not sent save to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." His forerunner, in announcing His approach to the Jewish nation, proclaimed the kingdom...