Rambles in Bible lands . orage for themselves in theopen country ; but as night draws on they steal backunder the cover of darkness. Thev return at evening, 1 Tent Work in Palestine, by Col. C. R. Conder, , 1st I., pp. 9, 10 (Messrs. Richard Bentley & Sons). 2 Ps. iix. 6. JOPPA TO JERUSALEM 85 and savagely growlat one another asthey fight for theirfood, and at allstrange passers-by,forming indeed astriking and appro-priate image of thewicked, hatefuland hating oneanother, and lov-ing darkness ratherthan lio-ht, becausethey are of thenight and 1 ofdarkness. 1 There is abeautifu
Rambles in Bible lands . orage for themselves in theopen country ; but as night draws on they steal backunder the cover of darkness. Thev return at evening, 1 Tent Work in Palestine, by Col. C. R. Conder, , 1st I., pp. 9, 10 (Messrs. Richard Bentley & Sons). 2 Ps. iix. 6. JOPPA TO JERUSALEM 85 and savagely growlat one another asthey fight for theirfood, and at allstrange passers-by,forming indeed astriking and appro-priate image of thewicked, hatefuland hating oneanother, and lov-ing darkness ratherthan lio-ht, becausethey are of thenight and 1 ofdarkness. 1 There is abeautiful and powerful figure of Implication, a species of metaphor,in our Saviours words to the much-tried Syrophenicianwoman, whose great faith He has called us toadmire : It is not meet to take the childrens bread,and cast it to the little dogs (puppies, kunaria, thediminutive of kudu, a dog).1 It is a matter ofsurprise that this has not been so rendered in ourRevised Version. Dog, in the East, is an awful 1 Mark vii. THE WAY TO LADIES TRAVELLING. 86 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS term of contempt, as I have already shown, a namefor everything that is unclean and hateful. Our blessedLord would not have used, and, I rejoice to know, didnot use, such a term. Had He done so, He would haveplunged the poor woman into despair. On the otherhand, He went out of His way by this word kunariaor puppies, to suggest to her just that hope of whicha faith like hers could lay hold. Dogs are neverallowed in the houses, never stroked by the master,never fed by the children ; but little dogs or puppiesare. When quite young these poor, despised brutesare often carried into the mud houses of the Fellahheen,fondled, and fed! This the Lord Jesus Christ as aFellahh knew well, and He knew that the woman knewit too, and, therefore, to that humble, believing soul—thank God for it!—-He said puppies. She caught atit at once, and cried, Nai [the Hebrew na, that is, Ibeseech you], Lord, but even
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