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The [Greek: akolastos] deliberately pursues pleasure and declines

pain if there is to be a distinct name for the latter phase, it

comes under [Greek: malakia] more nearly than any other term,

though perhaps not quite properly.

Or the words may be understood as referring to the class of wrong

acts caused by avoidance of pain, whether deliberate or

otherwise, and then of course the names of [Greek: malakia] and

[Greek: akolasia] may be fitly given respectively.

[17] "If we went into a hospital where all were sick or dying, we

should think those least ill who were insensible to pain; a

physician who knew the whole, would behold them with despair. And

there is a mortification of the soul as well as of the body, in

which the first symptoms of returning hope are pain and anguish"

Sewell, Sermons to Young Men (Sermon xii.)