Leading Up The Mountain

Et ducit illos in montem, etc. Significans illos qui resurrecturi sunt, ad gloriam, id est in coelum ascensuros. Vel ideo in montem, ut doceat omnes qui hanc gratiam videre desiderant, non in infimis jacere voluptatibus, sed potius ad superna erigi, juxta illud: Nostra conversatio in coelis est. Seorsum illos ideo ducit, ut per hoc significaret justos a malis in judicio separandos. Anselmus Laudunensis, Enarrationes In Matthaeum, Cap XVII Source: Migne PL 162.1399c-d

And He led them up the mountain... 1 Signifying those who shall be resurrected to glory, that is, those who shall ascend to heaven. Or 'up the mountain', that He might teach all who desire to see this grace not to be thrown down in base pleasures, but rather to be raised up to heavenly things. 'Our way of life is in the heavens.' 2 Therefore He leads them up, by which is signified the separation of the righteous from the wicked. Anselm of Laon, Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Matthew, Chapter 17 1 Mt 17.1 2 Philip 3.20