Patristic A.D. 395
“(ubi sup.) But to mark her own unworthiness, she stands behind with downcast eyes, and with her hair thrown about embraces His feet, and washing them with her tears, betokened a mind distressed at her state, and imploring pardon. For it follows, And standing behind, she began to wash his feet with her tears.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 7:36-50
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗