"health," and the religious connotation, "salvation," thus possessing a rich
172 ST. AUGUSTINE is called healable; he who is healthy already doesn't need a physician. Therefore the physician who had come to heal saw that he was healable because there was no guile in him.
(4) How was there no guile in him? If he is a sinner, he admits that he is a sinner. For, if one is a sinner and says that he is just, there is guile in his mouth. Therefore in Nathanael he commended the confession of sin; he did not judge him not to be a sinner.
19. Therefore when the Pharisees, who seemed to themselves to be just, were scolding the Lord, because as a physician he was mingling with the sick, and were saying, "Look with whom he is eating, with publicans and sinners," the physician answered the madmen, "The healthy do not need a physician, but they who are sick. I have come to call, not the just, but sinners." That is to say, because you say you are just when you are sinners, because you proclaim yourselves healthy when you are ill, you reject medicine but do not maintain your health. Thus that Pharisee who had invited the Lord to lunch thought himself healthy.^^ But that sick woman burst into the house where she had not been invited and, made shameless by her longing for health, approached not the Lord's head, nor his hands, but his feet. She washed them with her tears, dried them with her hair, kissed them, anointed them with ointment, and the sinful woman made peace with the feet of the Lord.
(2) But that man, as though healthy, that Pharisee who was reclining there reproached the physician and said to himself, "This man, were he a prophet, would know what manner of woman had touched his feet."^^ And so he had suspected that the Lord did not know because he did not rebuff her so that he might not be touched by unclean hands. But he knew;
52. Cf. Mt 9.1 113; Lk 15.1 -2. 53. The Maurist edition, and Migne, following it, both read "judge" for "proclaim."
54. Cf. Lk 7.36-50. 55. In Christian Latin the word salus carries both the secular connotation, "health," and the religious connotation, "salvation," thus possessing a rich double meaning which neither English word can convey in itself.