BEATITUDE imports the supreme good, or the highest degree of happiness human nature is susceptible of; or the most perfect state of a rational being, wherein the soul has attained to the utmost excellency and dignity it is framed for. In which sense, it amounts to the same with what we otherwise call blessedness and sovereign felicity; by the Greeks, ευδαιμονία; and by the Latins, summum bonum, beatitudo, and beatitas.