The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race; and she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
A Gentile: Gr. Îλλήνις, i.e, a Grecian woman, for where the Greeks bore sway, all Gentiles were called Greeks. Hence the expression in the first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans , "The Jew first, and also the Greek" i.e, the Gentile.
A Syrophonician, i.e, belonging to that part of Phœnicia which looks towards Syria.
For you, as women, have the very same angelic nature promised as your reward, the very same sexual respect as men. You have the same dignity in making moral judgments. This the Lord promises to women.
