Origen

“ And we must suppose that each of us when he sins is in the borders of Tyre or Sidon or of Pharaoh and Egypt, or some one of those which are outside the allotted inheritance of God; but when he changes from wickedness to virtue he goes out from the borders of evil, and comes to the borders of the portion of God, there being among these also a difference which will be manifest to those who are able to understand the things that concern the division and the inheritance of Israel, in harmony with the spiritual law. ”

“ Only, the Canaanitish woman came out of those borders and went forth from the state of being prepared for humiliation, crying and saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Thou Son of David.”
Footnotes ↑ Matt. xv. 21, 22.↑ Matt. xiv. 34.↑ Matt. xv. 11.↑ Matt. iv. 12.↑ Mark vii. 24.↑ Mark vii. 24.↑ Matt. xv. 22.↑ Deut. xxxii. 8.↑ Exod. viii. 2.↑ Matt. xv. 22.↑ Cf. Matt. xxv. 34. ”