because I was restored to health by the same Physician by whom it was granted that he not be ill or, rather, that he be less gravely ill. Let him love Thee as much as I do or, rather, even more, because he sees my release from the grievous pains of my sins to have been effected by the very One who permitted him not to be bound by such pains. (16) What fruit43 did I, wretched man, derive from these things, which I now blush to recall, particularly in that act of theft, in which I loved