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Does anyone know if there is a scripture reference for this, if not what is the thinking behind it?

  • Have you tried looking this up online? The answer can be found in Matthew 15:27. – Mick Dec 06 '17 at 11:10
  • Yes, but the confession of the Canaanite woman is a different confession. Her confession is not "I am not fit" or even " I have been unfit rather, " even the dogs eat the crumbs" –  Dec 06 '17 at 11:15
  • Jesus commends this as a statement of faith –  Dec 06 '17 at 11:15
  • I would imagine that it is a direct adaption. The encounter in Matthew 15 is very well known. – Mick Dec 06 '17 at 11:17
  • Maybe you should change your question to ask for an explanation of this encounter, and why Jesus calls the Caananite woman a "dog", and why she accepts the apparent insult? – Mick Dec 06 '17 at 11:19
  • Yes I know, but it would just be called out as subjective i think. –  Dec 06 '17 at 11:28
  • My own personal reasoning is that He doesn't think of any one nation as dogs but he was teasing her to bring out her faith, which is still way different to the inferences of the Anglican confession. –  Dec 06 '17 at 11:30
  • I think that an objective answer is possible, and one that is supported by most commentaries. – Mick Dec 06 '17 at 11:38
  • Ok I will post that question shortly –  Dec 06 '17 at 12:07
  • https://christianity.stackexchange.com/q/2837/23657. Good answers here – Kris Dec 06 '17 at 18:38

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We see at Luke 16: 19-21:

"There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores."

There was presumably a custom among the rich, of cleaning one's fingers between one course of meal and another with some inferior kind of bread, which would then be discarded , as we do with tissue papers today . (I am sorry I am unable to quote any reference in support of the prevalence of such a custom at the time of Jesus.)

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