Pilgrim,

I have a long way to go... to pursue this topic in its entirity... so I can’t answer to the sources you provided here, as well as previous.... because it will take me awhile to digest them.

But on this topic... the following verses somewhere (in my thinking) seem to apply... and I feel the need to post them.

Mar 7:26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.


Mar 7:27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast [it] unto the dogs.


Mar 7:28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.


Mar 7:29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

Do you think this woman was ‘a dog’? Or do you think that something else was being conveyed... in the context of the Pharisees and the washing of cups, etc?