Patristic
“(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) Her placing herself therefore in the rank of dogs is a mark of her reverence; as if she said, I hold it as a favour to be even in the position of a dog, and to eat not from another table, but from that of the Master himself.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 7:24-30
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗