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Then, again, a real Son of God would not have been found making distinctions and differences as are: only too obvious from such observations of Jesus as the following :
"I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs."
In the eye of God, surely, all his creatures are alike, and the nution of the 'favoured nation cannot but be looked upon as a piece of savage self-conceit and barbarous seil-glorification. If we, however, take into account what Jesus said on another occasion, his position becomes clear. “For the Son of man has come to save that which was lost,” gives us a clear insight into his attitude towards the rest of mankind. He knew that there were many who were not lost, and for them he could not have come. The people from whom he had learnt his gospel were there, and he could not be presumed to be teaching his own teachers. Whatever view we may take of the teaching of Jesus, it is certain, beyond the possibility of doubt, that he was preaching nothing new to the world, and, therefore, those who knew the truth bad no necessity for his help, or guidance. His position as regards the woman of Canaan also becomes clear now, and, plainly put, amounts to this that his mission in life was to carry enlightenment to those who were in the dark, but out of them those who could be considered better 'soil' were his first care, for there the seed would yield a thirty-, a sixty-, or even, a hundred-fold barvest quickly, as, he thought, was the case with the Israelites. Jesus
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