And he said unto another,
Follow me.
But he said, Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
While even burying a father was too tardy a business for faith.
When, however, He answers the man, who alleged as an excuse his father's burial, "Let the dead bury their dead, but go thou and preach the kingdom of God".
, who disdained his father's obsequies.
According to John. For the reason why He recalls that young man who was hastening to his father's obsequies,
