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Mat_10:19-20. But now, when the delivering of you up actually takes place, give yourselves no anxious concern, and so on.
ἢ τί ] not καὶ τί , but the distinctive expression used renders more fully prominent the two elements, the how and the what (Dissen, ad Dem, de cor. p. 264), in which “eleganter notatur cura” (Bengel). The difficulty, first of all, is with regard to the πῶς ; observe, however, that in the sequel only τί is used (“ubi τό quid obtigit, τό quomodo non deest,” Bengel).
δοθήσεται ] not docebitur, but suggeretur, by God through the Holy Spirit, Isa_50:4; Eph_6:19; 1Co_2:10 ff.; Luk_21:15.
Observe the difference between τί λαλήσητε and τί λαλήσετε (what you ought to speak, and what you will speak); and for this use of τί , see Bernhardy, p. 443. Kühner, II. 2, p. 1016.
οὐ … ἀλλά ] In this decided, and not in any half and half way, does Jesus conceive of that relation, in virtue of which His disciples were to become πνευματικοῖς πνευματικὰ συγκρίνοντες (1Co_2:13).
ἐστέ ] the future situation is thought of as present.