Lazarus. First, as we have seen from the description of the story, the rich man's soul appears to have intentional states, discursive thought, desires, and so on; as such, it meets virtually every contemporary standard for personhood.20 Second, the rich man's soul uses first-person reference in a way that cannot apply to the rich man himself. Indeed, if we look closely at the story, there appear to be two different sorts of self-referential claim made by the rich man's soul. The first is demonstrated by the rich man's statement, "I have five brothers." In this utterance, the referent of 'I' seems to be the previously existing human being, 'Dives,' who has five brothers. But Dives is not identical to his soul. 19 Patrick Toner is definitely tempted towardthe rich man's disembodied soul. The rich man's soul appears to have a variety of experiences, desires, and thoughts, then, which the rich man does not share. In short, there appears to be one person, Dives, who is replaced at his death by another person (Dives's soul), who is in turn replaced at the bodily resurrection by the human person Dives*-whom Aquinas claims is numerically identical to the original Dives.21 Aquinas himself seems uncharacteristically tentative about how best to handle the question of referring to the disembodied soul. In a brief passage on petitionary prayer in ST IIaIIae, for instance, Aquinas considers the issue of praying to the saints. Since this request occurs after their deaths and before the final judgment, Aquinas takes it that our requests are