When there is no repentance on a sinner's heart and they are deliberately being disobedient or separating themselves from God, then those people are choosing their fate. If they are educated and have been raised in a faith that follows God as their one true God. then they have no excuses because these sinners are aware of their sin they are to be punished. These sinners have a very mild sentence, it's similar to those who are virtuous and without hope, they are all stuck in limbo. Virgil then begins to explain to Dante that this is where virtuous pagans reside. They are stuck in limbo due to the fact that they had either died before Christ or their soul was unbaptized. When Dante asks if any of these souls had ever been redeemed, Virgil replies
