let. leave.
the dead. corpses. Note the-well-known Figure of speech Antanaclasis (App-6), by which one word is used twice in the same sentence with two meanings which clash against each other: "leave the dead to bury their own corpses". See App-139.
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Matthew 8:22
22 But Jesus said unto him,Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.