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Mat 10:19. Μὴ μεριμνήσητε, Be not careful) Your only care must be to be without care. We are not forbidden by this passage from all preparation; see 1Ti 4:15, cf. Luk 21:14; 1Co 14:26. But on a sudden emergency, even in these times, a faithful professor should not be anxious as to what he has to say.-ἤ, or) Care is elegantly mentioned; where, however, the “what” (quid, τί) is supplied, there the “how”[468] (quomodo, πῶς) is not wanting. The “how or what” includes whatever can fall under the idea of care; therefore, especially also the words, concerning which many, who have the matter ready, are wont to be over anxious. The Spirit does not speak without words; see Mat 10:20 : and in Luk 21:15, we read, “I will give you a mouth and wisdom.” Analogous combinations, under other circumstances, occur in Joh 8:28; Joh 12:49-50; Rom 8:26; 1Pe 1:11. The doctrine of verbal inspiration is not inferred from the difference of the words how and what, but from the promise itself.-ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὤρᾳ, in that hour) even though not before. Many feel most strongly their spiritual power when the hour arrives of imparting it to others.-τί, what) for ὅ, that which.-Cf. ch. Mat 15:32, and Luk 17:8.
[468] Referring to “HOW or WHAT ye shall speak”-(I. B.)