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Objection 1: It would seem that the weeping of the damned will be
corporeal. For a gloss on Lk. 13:28, "There will be
weeping," says that "the weeping with which our Lord threatens the
wicked is a proof of the resurrection of the body." But this would
not be the case if that weeping were merely spiritual. Therefore,
etc.
Objection 2: Further, the pain of the punishment corresponds to the
pleasure of the sin, according to Apoc. 18:7: "As much as she
hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and
sorrow give ye to her." Now sinners had internal and external
pleasure in their sin. Therefore they will also have external
weeping.
On the contrary, Corporeal weeping results from dissolving into
tears. Now there cannot be a continual dissolution from the bodies of
the damned, since nothing is restored to them by food; for everything
finite is consumed if something be continually taken from it.
Therefore the weeping of the damned will not be corporeal.
I answer that, Two things are to be observed in corporeal weeping.
One is the resolution of tears: and as to this corporeal weeping
cannot be in the damned, since after the day of judgment, the movement
of the first movable being being at an end, there will be neither
generation, nor corruption, nor bodily alteration: and in the
resolution of tears that humor needs to be generated which is shed forth
in the shape of tears. Wherefore in this respect it will be impossible
for corporeal weeping to be in the damned. The other thing to be
observed in corporeal weeping is a certain commotion and disturbance of
the head and eyes, and in this respect weeping will be possible in the
damned after the resurrection: for the bodies of the damned will be
tormented not only from without, but also from within, according as
the body is affected at the instance of the soul's passion towards good
or evil. In this sense weeping is a proof of the body's
resurrection, and corresponds to the pleasure of sin, experienced by
both soul and body.
This suffices for the Replies to the Objections.
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