QUESTION 69

OF THE BEATITUDES

(In Four Articles)

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.

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