| ### QUESTION 8 ### OF THE GIFT OF UNDERSTANDING ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the gifts of understand and knowledge, which respond to the virtue of faith. With regard to the gift of understanding there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether understanding is a gift of the Holy Ghost? #### (2) Whether it can be together with faith in the same person? #### (3) Whether the understanding which is a gift of the Holy Ghost, is only speculative, or practical also? #### (4) Whether all who are in a state of grace have the gift of understanding? #### (5) Whether this gift is to be found in those who are without grace? #### (6) Of the relationship of the gift of understanding to the other gifts; #### (7) Which of the beatitudes corresponds to this gift? #### (8) Which of the fruits? ####  |