"No, not to thee! not to an earthly physician!" cried Mr. Dimmesdale, passionately, and turning his eyes, full and bright, and with a kind of fierceness, on old Roger Chillingworth. "Not to thee! But, if it be the soul's disease, then do I commit myself to the one Physician of the soul! He, if it stand with His good pleasure, can cure, or he can kill.
In that there are important meanings. First Dimmesdale demonstrates that he is keeping a secret and the reader can well imagine what secret is this. Second it highlighted the difference between earth and heaven, expecially between the business of the one or of the otherone. The doctros are part of the material life, they can help and cure the body of the people but they can’t cure the soul. Only God has the power to judge and cure the soul troubles.
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