Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father An ancient, but groundless tradition (Clem. Alex. Strom,ill. 4, § 25), says that this was Philip. This man was already a disciple (Matthew 8:21). The request could hardly mean -let me live at home till my father's death," which would be too indefinite an offer; nor can it well mean that his father was lying unburied, for in that case the disciple would hardly have been among the crowd. Perhaps it meant -let me go and give a farewell funeral feast, and put everything in order." The man was bidden to be Christ's Nazarite (Numbers 6:6-7).

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