Chapter 169 — That man will then be renewed, and all bodily creation

It is manifest that all things existing for some definite end are arranged according as the end requires. Therefore, if that for the sake of which other things exist can vary from perfect to imperfect, the things ordered to it must be arranged in various ways so as to serve the end in either state. Food and clothing, for instance, are prepared otherwise for a child than for a grown man. We have already called attention to the fact that material creation is ordered to rational nature as to its end. Consequently, when man is admitted to his final perfection through the resurrection, material creation must take on a new condition. This is why we are told that the world is to undergo renovation when man rises, in accord with Revelation 21:1: I saw a new heaven and a new earth, and Isaiah 65:17: For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth.