Jews have God’s promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
Karl Barth
I think myself that the shocking reply to the Syrophonician woman (it came alright in the end) is to remind all us Gentile Christians – who forget it easily enough and even flirt with anti-Semitism – that the Hebrews are spiritually senior to us, that God did entrust the descendants of Abraham with the first revelation of Himself.
C.S. Lewis
By the death of Christ, “the middle wall of partition … the law of the commandments contained in the ordinances” – which was at the same time a token of the enmity between God and sinners, and an occasion of distance and alienation between Jews and Gentiles – was abolished; and believing Jews and Gentiles were reconciled to God and united into one body.
Thomas M’Crie