Sometimes, says St. Thomas, a person repents and hates sin in one or two ways: absolutely or accidentally. He who hates sin absolutely, hates it on account of its intrinsic ugliness, and because it is an offense against God; he who hates it accidentally, hates it, not out of love of God, but out of love of himself; in other words, he does not really detest sin, but only the pain, the evils it has brought him.
The will of the damned is still inclined to evil, and their horror and detestation of their punishment is neither repentance nor atonement.' Undoubtedly they are consumed by desires and
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