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But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
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Verse 60. Bury their dead, and so forth Though this was an act of religion, yet it was not permitted him; that we may learn to prefer always the concerns of God to all human considerations. Saint Ambrose.—However necessary this might appear, however easy, however short the time which it would take up, might be, it is not permitted him. Not the least delay can be allowed, although a thousand impediments stand in the way; for spiritual things must be preferred to things even the most necessary. Chrys. hom. xxviii on S. Matt.
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