Naked Flight

Ὁ γυμνὸς φεύξεται ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρα, φησὶν ὁ προφήτης. Προχείρως μὲν τὰ ἐν τῷ πάθει τοῦ Κυρίου συμβάντα προθεωρῶν, καὶ τὸν γυμνὸν πεφευγότα δηλῶν, ὅς σινδόνα περιβεβλημένος ἐπὶ γυμνῆς, τὴν πεῖραν τῶν Κυριοκτόνων ἀπέφυγε, καταλιπὼν αὐτοῖς τὴν σινδόνα. Ἡ δὲ κεκρυμμένη τούτου καὶ παρακεκαλυμμένη διάνοια, σημαίνει τὸν ἰσχνὸν καὶ ἀπέριττον, καὶ τῶν βαρῶν τῆς σαρκὸς ἀμέτοχον, μηδὲν κώλυμα πρὸς τὴν ἐντεῦθεν ἀνάνασιν ἔχοντα· κοῦφον καὶ εὐπάλλακτον τῆς θνητῆς ἀναχωροῦντα ἰλύος, καὶ πρὸς τὴν ἄφθαρτον ζωὴν, πτηνὸν ἀπαντῶντα. Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλίον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΝΓ' Θεοδουλῳ Source: Migne PG 78.216b

'Naked let him flee on that day,' says the Prophet. 1 By which he points to the things which happened during the passion of the Lord, and that one who fled naked clearly is the one who was wrapped in a linen cloth and cast it off to nakedness, and leaving it behind, fled the murderous trial of the Lord. 2 And if you consider the hidden and veiled sense here, it means that one should be stripped and unencumbered, having no burden of the flesh, having no impediment to ascent, and then with lightness and swiftness one may go forth from the filth of mortal things and fly on wings to the immortal life. Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 1, Letter 53, To Theodoulos 1 Amos 2.16 2 Mk 14.52