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| | SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Was the pain which Christ endured the greatest? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | But moral virtue does not lessen outward sensitive pain, because such pain is not subject to reason, but follows the nature of the body; yet it lessens it indirectly by redundance of the higher powers into the lower. |
 | | But this did not happen in Christ's case, as stated above (cf, 14, 1, ad 2; 45, 2). |
 | | The pain of a suffering, separated soul belongs to the state of future condemnation, which exceeds every evil of this life, just as the glory of the saints surpasses every good of the present life. |
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