| ### QUESTION 69 ### OF THE BEATITUDES ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the beatitudes: under which head there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether the beatitudes differ from the gifts and virtues? #### (2) Of the rewards of the beatitudes: whether they refer to this life? #### (3) Of the number of the beatitudes; #### (4) Of the fittingness of the rewards ascribed to the beatitudes. ####  |