Above left: Gumb sews a patch of skin from one of his female victims. Above right: Gumb's suit of skin, here shown on a mannequin in his basement, needs just the upper left chest area and left thigh to be complete.
As previously stated in the analysis, Gumb, in making a whole 'suit' of women's skin from parts, represents Satan's pupil/evil Freemasons attempting to usurp God's power of creation. Also stated earlier is that the suit of skin represents an 'evil kingdom' that is being formed. In the below, we look at what the suit represents in a somewhat different light.
In the bible, 1 Corinthians 12, a relationship is drawn between the Church and its members, and the parts of Christ's body. In the below are quoted verses 12-27 from 1 Corinthians 12, in which Paul the Apostle is speaking to the people of the city of Corinth. The New American Standard bible is used.
1 Corinthians 12:12-27
12. For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.
13. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
14. For the body is not one member, but many.
15. If the foot says, "Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.
16. And if the ear says, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.
17. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
18. But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.
19. If they were all one member, where would the body be?
20. But now there are many members, but one body.
21. And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; or again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you."
22. On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;
23. and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,
24. whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked,
25. so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
26. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27. Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it.
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One theme of the above is that the members of the Church are like the parts of Jesus' body. Jame Gumb (Satan's pupil/evil Freemasons) is assembling his 'suit' of skin from various parts of his victims' bodies. It must be the case that in 'overseeing' Gumb's attempt at making a 'new body', Lecter, as Satan personified/evil hermaphroditic Jews, desires that a metaphorical 'new Church' of some sort be formed, and that this new Church has some correspondence to the formation of the 'evil kingdom' that we said the making of the skin suit represents. Later in the analysis, it will be seen how some of the above verses specifically apply to the movie.
