Coming Down The Mountain

Cum descendisset Jesus de monte secutae sunt eum turbae multae... Spirtualiter mons iste significat coelum; descensio Domini de monte incarnationem ipsius, quia semetipsum exinanivit factus obediens usque ad mortem: tunc quippe Dominus de monte descendit, quando carnem nostrae mortalitatis suscepit. Et pulchre postquam narrat sanctus evangelista Dominum descendisse de monte subjunxit: Secutae sunt eum turbae multae, quia ille qui solus prius in Judaea tantum notus erat, et cujus nomen magnum solumodo in Israel habebatur postquam Verbum caro factum est, et habitavit in nobis, admitabilis fatrus est in universo orbe, et secutae sunt eum turbae multae, quia omnes gentes, omnes linguae, omnes sexus, omnesque aetates credentes in eum imitatae sunt vestigia ipsius. Remigius Antissiodorensis, Homilia VIII Source: Migne PL 131.907d-908a

When Jesus came down from the mountain a great crowd followed Him... 1 Spiritually the mount signifies heaven, and the descent of the Lord from the mount is His incarnation, because He emptied Himself and was obedient even to death. 2 Then indeed the Lord came down from the mountain when He took up the flesh of our mortality. And well does the holy evangelist tell that after the Lord had descended from the mount a great crowd followed Him, because He who before was known in Judea alone, and whose name was great in Israel alone, 3 after the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, was celebrated in all the world, and there followed Him a great crowd, because all the peoples, and all tongues, all sexes, and all ages, believing in Him, imitated His way. Remigius of Auxerre, from Homily 8 1 Mt 8.1 2 Philip 2.8 3 Ps 75.2