| ### QUESTION 49 ### OF THE EFFECTS OF CHRIST'S PASSION ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We have now to consider what are the effects of Christ's Passion, concerning which there are six points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether we were freed from sin by Christ's Passion? #### (2) Whether we were thereby delivered from the power of the devil? #### (3) Whether we were freed thereby from our debt of punishment? #### (4) Whether we were thereby reconciled with God? #### (5) Whether heaven's gate was opened to us thereby? #### (6) Whether Christ derived exaltation from it? ####  |