24. I have, then, recounted these things not
as to one who is ungrateful, but have enumerated them as rightly
bestowed, in order that, warned by them, you, to whom more has been
given, may love more. When Simon answered in these words the Lord
Jesus said: “Thou hast judged rightly.” S. Luke vii. 43. And straightway turning to the
woman who anointed His feet with ointment, setting forth a type of the
Church, He said to Simon: “Wherefore I say unto thee, her
sins which are many are forgiven, since she loved much. But he to
whom less is forgiven loveth less.” S. Luke vii. 47. This is the woman who entered
into the house of the Pharisee, and cast off the Jew, but gained
Christ. For the Church shut out the Synagogue, why is it now
again attempted that in the servant of Christ the Synagogue should
exclude the Church from the bosom of faith, from the house of
Christ?