Matthew 8:22
Douay-Rheims
But Jesus said to him: Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.
Gregory the Great
(Mor. iv. 27.) The dead also bury the dead, when sinners protect sinners. They who exalt sinners with their praises, hide the dead under a pile of words.
Source details
A.D. 604 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 8:18-22
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.