John Trapp on Matthew 8:22

Verse 22. Follow me] Let go things lesse necessary, and minde the main: thy task is long, thy time is short; opportunities are headlong, and must be quickly caught, as the Eccho catcheth the voice: there's no use of after-wit. Praecipitat tempus, mors atra impendet agenti. Sil. Italic. Let the dead bury their dead] The dead in sin, their dead in nature. Ungodly men are no better then breathing ghosts, walking sepulchres of themselves. Their bodies are but living coffins, to [illegible: 1 word] a dead soul up and down in. The Saints only are heirs of life, 1 Pet. 3. 7. and all others are dead, stark dead in sins and trespasses, as the wanton widdow, 1 Tim. 5. 6. as Terence saith the [illegible: 1 word]: Sane herclè homo voluptati [illegible: 1 word] fuit dum vixit. Ter. in [illegible: 1 word]. And of such dead corpses (as once in Egypt, Exod. 12. 30.) there is no house, wherein there is not one, nay many.