The Two Chambered Tomb

Abraham conjugem mortuam in spelunca duplici sepelivit... Quia viator animam suam a mundi actibus mortuam, sub bonae operationis et contemplationis regimine abscondit. Activa enim sepulcrum est, ut quae a pravis operibus mortuos sepelit, sed contemplativa perfectius tegit: quae a cunctis mundi desideriis, suspectos in intimis, funditus dividit, quales erant de quibus Paulus ait: Mortui estis, et vita vestra abscondita est cum Christo in gloria. Hugo De Sancte Victore, Miscellanea, Liber IV, Tit XXVII Quid sit in spelunca duplici sepeliri Source: Migne PL 177.710b

Abraham buried his wife in a two chambered tomb... 1 Because the pilgrim has a soul dead to the acts of the world, he hides beneath the discipline of good works and contemplation. The active life is the tomb which buries the dead from all evil works, but the contemplative life covers it more completely, so that those taken deep within are utterly separated from every desire of the world, in which likeness they were, concerning whom Paul said: 'You are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in glory.' 2 Hugh Of Saint Victor, Miscellanea, Book 4, Chapter 27, On The Burial In The Two Chambered Tomb 1 Gen 23.17-19 2 Colos 3.3