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Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain.

Thomas Aquinas
Pain, Hate, Blessed
St Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 5 (Part III, Second Section & Supplement)”, p.2992, Cosimo, Inc.

The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.

Thomas Aquinas
Pain, Fire, Doe
"Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part I, Question 10, Article 3, Ad. 2), 1485.

Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.

Thomas Aquinas
Pain, Memories, Love Is
Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1845). “Summa Theologica, (Complete)”, p.3172, Library of Alexandria

The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.

Thomas Aquinas
Pain, Fire, Hell

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