Question 79 — The Conditions of the Resurrected, and First of Their Identity

In the next place we must consider the conditions of those who rise again. Here we shall consider: (1) Those which concern the good and wicked in common; (2) Those which concern the good only; (3) Those which concern only the wicked.

Three things concern the good and wicked in common, namely, their identity, their integrity, and their quality: and we shall inquire (1) About their identity; (2) About their integrity; (3) About their quality.

Under the first head there are three points of inquiry:

(1) Whether the body will rise again the same in number?

• (2) Whether it will be the same man in number?
• (3) Whether it is necessary that the same ashes should return to the same parts in which they were before?