1 Kings 19:20 (WEB)
Elisha left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”
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John Chrysostom
“For though they were in the midst of their work (and ye know how greedy a thing fishing is), when they heard His command, they delayed not, they procrastinated not, they said not, “let us return home, and converse with our kinsfolk,” but “they forsook all and followed,” even as Elisha did to Elijah.”” — editor's note: 1 Kings xix. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“Hear, how one desired to bid farewell to them at his house,and the prophet suffered him not.” — editor's note: 1 Kings xix. 20.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…the people on what he had, so that no household cares might hold him back, and that he might give up all things, and devote himself to the prophetic teaching.” — editor's note: 1 [3] Kings xix. 20.
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