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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Sacrament of Penance |
 | | And because in hell there is no confession, nor can exomologesis be made there, they who repent with their whole heart and ask for it, should be received into the Church and therein saved unto the Lord" (Ep. |
 | | 154) compares the sinner to those whose stomachs are overloaded with undigested food or with excess of humours and phlegm if they vomit, they are relieved, "so, too, those who have sinned, if they conceal and keep the sin within, they are distressed and almost choked by its humour or phlegm. |
 | | But if they accuse themselves and confess, they at the same time vomit the sin and cast off every cause of disease" (Homil. |
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