QUESTION 175

OF RAPTURE

(In Six Articles)

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(4) Whether he was withdrawn from his senses?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?

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