Chapter 3 — Part I — Article I (Of God the Father)
Section 117. Q. Was the Paradise in which man first lived material or spiritual? A. For the body it was material, a visible and blissful abode; but for the soul it was spiritual, a state of communion by grace with God, and spiritual contemplation of the creatures. (Greg. Theol. Serm, xxxviii. 42; J. Damasc. Theol. lib. ii. cap. 12, § 3.)