Question 175 — Rapture

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• (4) Whether he was withdrawn from his senses?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