The Dejection That Ends in Despair

There is also another, still more objectionable kind of dejection, which produces in the guilty soul no amendment of life or correction of faults, but the most destructive despair. It did not make Cain repent after the murder of his brother, nor make Judas, after the betrayal, hurry to find relief by making amends; instead it drove him to hang himself in despair. [a]