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 those who were cast into hell had been from corporeal and worldly love.

Heavenly love is to love what is good, sincere and just for their own sake, and from the love of such things to do them. Thence is derived the life of goodness, sincerity and justice, which is heavenly life. They who love goodness, sincerity and justice for their own sake, and practice or live them, love the Lord above all things, because these are from Him; and they also love the neighbor, because these are the neighbor that is to be loved.

But corporeal love is to love what is good, sincere and just, not for their own sake but for the sake of