Sodom And The Mountains

Ardentem quippe Sodomam fugere est illicita carnis incendia, vel mundi desideria declinare. Altitudo vero montium speculatio est perfectorum; sed quia multi sunt justi, qui mundi quidem illecebras fugiunt, sed tamen in actione positi, contemplationis apicem subire nequeunt, hoc est, quod exiit quidem Lot de Sodomis, sed tamen ad montana non pervenit, quia licet jam damnabilis vita relinquitur, sed adhuc celesitudo speculationis subtilier non tenetur. Sanctus Isidorus Hispalensis,Mysticorum Expositiones Sacramentorum Seu Quaestiones In Vetus Testamentum, In Genesin, Caput XV Source: Migne PL 83.246a-b

Certainly the flight from blazing Sodom 1 is as from the lawless fires of the flesh, or the spurning of worldly desires. However the height of the mountains is the contemplation of those perfect; but because there are many who are just, who certainly flee the snares of the world, but are fixed in deeds, they are not able to come to the peak of contemplation. That is, Lot certainly went out from the Sodomites but he did not come to the mountains, because though he forsook the damned life, yet did not yet achieve the rarefied contemplation of heaven. Saint Isidore of Seville, Expositions of Sacred Mysteries or Questions on the Old Testament, On Genesis, Chap 15 1 Gen 19.1-29