In the previous Article, St. Thomas argued that the body is required for happiness, not in the sense that happiness originates in the body as its very essence, but in the sense that the body contributes to the well-being of the whole human person. The happiness of the redeemed soul does not increase in intensity after its reunion with the body; just by seeing God, it was already as happy as it is possible to be. However, its happiness increases in extent because now the body participates in it too, by “a kind of overflow.”