QUESTION 20

OF DESPAIR

(In Four Articles)

We must now consider the contrary vices; (1) despair; (2) presumption.

Under the first head there are four points of inquiry:

(1) Whether despair is a sin?

(2) Whether it can be without unbelief?

(3) Whether it is the greatest of sins?

(4) Whether it arises from sloth?

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Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province · 第 137 / 1128 题