The Enchiridion 90
90 If There Be Differences and Inequalities Among the Bodies of Those Who Rise Again, There Shall Be Nothing Offensive or Disproportionate in Any PL 40, 273
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.
In statura et effigie corporis nihil erit indecorum. Nec illud est consequens, ut ideo diversa sit statura reviviscentium singulorum, quia fuerat diversa viventium, aut macri cum eadem macie, aut pingues cum eadem pinguedine reviviscant. Sed si hoc est in consilio Creatoris, ut in effigie sua cujusque proprietas et discernibilis similitudo servetur, in caeteris autem corporis bonis aequalia cuncta reddantur, ita modificabitur illa in unoquoque materies, ut nec aliquid ex ea pereat, et quod alicui defuerit ille suppleat, qui etiam de nihilo potuit quod voluit operari. Si autem in corporibus resurgentium rationabilis inaequalitas erit, sicut est vocum quibus cantus impletur; hoc fiet cuique de materie corporis sui, quod et hominem reddat angelicis coetibus, et nihil inconveniens eorum ingerat sensibus. Indecorum quippe aliquid ibi non erit; sed quidquid futurum est, hoc decebit; quia nec futurum est, si non decebit.