For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knows that you have need of these things.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
""But seek first the kingdom of heaven, and its righteousness "for these are the great things, and the things which are small and appertain to this life "shall be added to you."
And whom they were in process of learning as well as they could; or that faith which they for this express reason owed to the Creator, because they believed that He was of His own will supplying these wants of the human race, and therefore took no thought about them? Now, when He adds, "For all these things do the nations of the world seek after".
Even by their not believing in God as the Creator and Giver of all things, since He was unwilling that they should be like these nations, He therefore upbraided them as being defective of faith in the same God, in whom He remarked that the Gentiles were quite wanting in faith. When He further adds, "But your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things".
