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Pain
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
There are two kinds of pain: pain of loss and pain of sense.
- Pain of loss results:
- in Hell, from the eternal loss of God, whose possession alone in the Beatific Vision can completely satisfy the desire of intelligent beings for happiness
- in Purgatory, from the temporary deprivation of Him, whom the soul realizes to be the source of all happiness
- in Limbo there will be no subjective pain of loss (not an article of faith, but the opinion of Saint Thomas
- Pain of sense principally consists in the torment of fire. The nature of this fire is not known.
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Entry for 'Pain'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/p/pain.html. 1910.