Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 8390

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8390. Those who merely acknowledge that they are complete sinners, holding themselves guilty of every evil, yet do not examine themselves, that is, see their own evils, are making a confession. But it is not a confession made because they are penitent since their life afterwards remains the same as it was before.


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