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Mat_6:32. The second γάρ does not append another reason co-ordinate with the first, but after the injunction contained in Mat_6:31 has been justified by the reference to the heathen (to whom they are not to compare themselves), this same injunction is provided with an explanation of an encouraging nature, so that the first γάρ is logical, the second explanatory, as frequently in classical writers (Kühner, ad Xen. Anab. v. 6. 6. Frotscher, ad Hieron. xi. 6). The referring of the second γάρ to something to be supplied after τὰ ἔθνη , such as “who know nothing of God” (Tholuck), is arbitrary.
οἶδε is emphatic; is certainly known to your Father, and so on.
ὅτι ] that, not ὅ , τι (Paulus: that, which; Fritzsche: quatenus).