Chapter 90.—If There
Be Differences and Inequalities Among the Bodies of Those Who Rise
Again, There Shall Be Nothing Offensive or Disproportionate in
Any.
Nor does it necessarily follow that
there shall be differences of stature among those who rise again,
because they were of different statures during life; nor is it
certain that the lean shall rise again in their former leanness,
and the fat in their former fatness. But if it is part of the
Creator’s design that each should preserve his own peculiarities
of feature, and retain a recognizable likeness to his former self,
while in regard to other bodily advantages all should be equal,
then the material of which each is composed may be so modified that
none of it shall be lost, and that any defect may be supplied by
Him who can create at His will out of nothing. But if in the bodies
of those who rise again there shall be a well-ordered inequality,
such as there is in the voices that make up a full harmony, then
the material of each man’s body shall be so dealt with that it
shall form a man fit for the assemblies of the angels, and one who
shall bring nothing among them to jar upon their sensibilities. And
assuredly nothing that is unseemly shall be there; but whatever
shall be there shall be graceful and becoming: for if anything is
not seemly, neither shall it be.