| ### QUESTION 175 ### OF RAPTURE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider rapture. Under this head there are six points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether the soul of man is carried away to things divine? #### (2) Whether rapture pertains to the cognitive or to the appetitive power? #### (3) Whether Paul when in rapture saw the essence of God? #### (4) Whether he was withdrawn from his senses? #### (5) Whether, when in that state, his soul was wholly separated from his body? #### (6) What did he know, and what did he not know about this matter? ####  |