And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow you wherever you go.
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
“Leave the dead burying their dead, but go, preach the kingdom of God.” There were, no doubt, other guardians and relatives of his father. I consider them dead, because they had not yet believed in Christ nor been able to receive the new birth by holy baptism to incorruptible life. “Let them,” he says, “bury their dead, because they also have within them a dead mind and still have not been numbered among those who possess the life that is in Christ.” We learn from this that the fear of God is to be set even above the reverence and love due to parents. The law of Moses, in the first place, commanded that you shall love the Lord God with all your soul, all your might and all your heart. It put as second to it the honor due to parents, saying, “Honor your father and your mother.” Commentary on Luke, Homily
