The Immortality of the Soul

St. Thomas Aquinas has some interesting things to say about this that as it relates to apologetics – this is taken from his commentary on the gospel of Matthew. And one should notice that Jesus excludes here two errors. For some said, Aquinas writes, that the soul passes away once the body is dead. And he, that is Jesus, destroys this position when he says, who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna? Hence, it's clear that it remains after the body. Similarly, Aquinas goes on, some held a position that there's no resurrection. And Jesus excludes this because if the body and the soul were sent into Gehenna, it follows that