BRAGADAYJAH 348
We may recall and even wonder at Jesus' rebuke of the Canaanite
woman when with poignant frankness he said, “It is not lawful to take the
children bread and cast it to dogs.” We know that Jesus was not calling the
woman a dog, or even suggesting she was so unworthy that she was beyond help.
Jesus was merely reciting what the extant state of the law was. But Jesus knew
that He was the fountain of grace; “for what the law could not do in that it
was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful
flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.”
But now we may see clearly what Jesus meant by his words; for
continuing with God's instructions to Aaron about the holy bread, we find these
words of God:
“There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the
priest or a hired servant may not eat of the holy thing.” So we may conclude
further, that the sacred things of God are laid up for the people of God.
But the Lord also says, “if the priest buys any soul with his
money, he shall eat of it; and he that is born in his house they shall eat of
the meat."
“ If the priest's daughter also be married to a stranger, she
shall not eat of the holy things. But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or
divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her
youth, she shall eat of her father's meat; but no stranger shall eat thereof.
“And if a man eats of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall
put the fifth part unto it and give it unto the priest with the holy thing.”
“And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of
Israel which they offer unto the Lord. More.
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