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LUKE 12:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 12:29Luke 12:31
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! — the fire Jesus brings connects his ministry to the Baptist's announcement of the coming one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire (3:16). The judgment-fire and the Spirit-fire are two aspects of the same event: the kingdom's arrival that refines the faithful and consumes the faithless (Malachi 3:2-3, Isaiah 66:15-16).

Church Fathers on Luke 12:30

As our Lord had before given instruction about c food, so now also about raiment, saying, Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin, that is, to make themselves clothing. Now as above when our Lord said, the birds sow not, He did not reprove sowing, but all superfluous trouble; so when He said, They toil not neither do they spin, He does not put an end to work, but to all anxiety about it.

Chrysostom · 4th century

But if a man wishes to be adorned with precious raiment, let him observe closely how even down to the flowers which spring from the earth God extends His manifold wisdom, adorning them with divers colors, so adapting to the delicate membranes of the flowers dyes far superior to gold and purple, that under no luxurious king, not even Solomon himself, who was renowned among the ancients for his riches as for his wisdom and pleasures, has so exquisite a work been devised; and…

Eusebius of Caesarea · 4th century

For it is sufficient to the prudent for the sake of necessity only, to have a suitable garment, and moderate food, not exceeding what is enough. To the saints it is sufficient even to have those spiritual delights which are in Christ, and the glory that comes after.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century
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