| ### QUESTION 74 ### OF THE FIRE OF THE FINAL CONFLAGRATION ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the fire of the final conflagration: and under this head there are nine points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether any cleansing of the world is to take place? #### (2) Whether it will be effected by fire? #### (3) Whether that fire is of the same species as elemental fire? #### (4) Whether that fire will cleanse also the higher heavens? #### (5) Whether that fire will consume the other elements? #### (6) Whether it will cleanse all the elements? #### (7) Whether that fire precedes or follows the judgment? #### (8) Whether men are to be consumed by that fire? #### (9) Whether the wicked will be involved therein? ####  |