“We understand how devoted he was who, as he himself maintained, left his dead father so as to lay hold of the Lord of life. For he says, "First permit me to go and bury my father." The one whom he had left behind as dead he begs that he might return and bury. Sorrow did not hold him nor death detain him, because he wa…”
Maximus of Turin, 5th c. — SERMONS 41:2
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4Then before I had tasted of any meat, I started up, and took him up into a room until the going down of the sun.
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2And when I saw abundance of meat, I said to my son, Go and bring what poor man soever thou shalt find out of our brethren, who is mindful of the Lord; and, lo, I tarry for thee.
3But he came again, and said, Father, one of our nation is strangled, and is cast out in the marketplace.
— Tobit 2:4 —
5Then I returned, and washed myself, and ate my meat in heaviness,
6Remembering that prophecy of Amos, as he said, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation.