4. “Dear woman, why do you involve me?” But why does Christ rebuff her so sternly? I reply that although neither ambition nor any other human affection motivated her, she nevertheless did wrong by going beyond her proper bounds. Her solicitude about the inconvenience of others and her desire to remedy it in some way came from kindness and should receive credit; all the same, by intruding she could have obscured the glory of Christ. But we also ought to notice that Christ spoke like this not so much