Then Jesus answered and said unto her,
O woman, great is your faith: be it unto you even as you will.
And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
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Remigius of Rheims
AD 533
Tyre and Sidon were Gentile towns, for Tyre was the metropolis of theChananaeans, and Sidon the boundary of the Chananaeans towards the north.
In this way also He was sent specially to the Jew, because He taught them by His bodily presence.
In these words is given us a pattern of catechizing and baptizing children; forthe woman says not ‘Heal my daughter, 'or ‘Help her,’ but, “Have mercy upon me, and help me.” Thus there has come downin the Church the practice that the faithful are sponsors to God for their young children, before they have attained such age and reason that they can themselves make any pledge to God. So that as by this woman’s faith her daughter was healed, so by the faith of Catholics of mature age their sins might be forgiven to infants. Allegorically; This woman figures the Holy Church gathered out of the Gentiles. The Lord leaves the Scribes and Pharisees, and comes into the parts of Tyre and Sidon; this figures His leaving the Jews and going over to the Gentiles. This woman came out of her own country, because the Holy Church departed from former errors and sins.
Thus of whom the Lord speaks as children are the Patriarchs and Prophets of that time. By the table is signified the Holy Scripture, by the fragments the best precepts, or inward mysteries on which Holy Church feeds; by the crumbs the carnal precepts which the Jews keep. The fragments are said to be eaten under the table, because the Church submits itself. humbly to fulfilling the Divine commands.
