George Leo Haydock, on Tob 8:14

“Send one of thy maids, and let her see if he be dead, that I may bury him before it be day.”

“Dead. Greek, “alive. But if not, that I may bury him, and no body may know,” The custom of burying too soon ought to be avoided, as many have thus been consigned to the tomb before they were really dead!”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.