Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 15:24

24 But he answered, and said, I am not sent, but to the lost sheep of Israel.

Our Lord by these Words doth not deny, but that he was sent as a Redeemer to more, but not as a Minister or as an Apostle, as he is called, Heb. 3.1. The Apostle Rom. 15.8. saith, That Iesus Christ was a Minister of the Circumcision, for the Truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the Fathers. Our Lords Ministry was confined to the Jews, so was the Apostles, Matth. 10.5. Till some time after our S[illegible: 1 letter] viours Ascension, the Gospel was not Preached generally to the Gentiles, tho some particular Persons might, and did both in Christs time, and in the time of the Ap[illegible: 1 letter]stles, before they did go to the Gentiles, hear, receive, and imbrace the Gospel, as we shall hear this Woman did.

Marginal references: Chap. 10.5, 6.