And another also said, Lord, I will follow you; but let me first go bid them farewell, who are at home at my house.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
, when He said to him that declared, "I will follow Thee, but suffer me first to bid them farewell that are in my house ""No man, putting his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of heaven"
