Verse 15. I will give you a mouth and wisdom] , a mouth, must appear plain to every person to be used here for a ready utterance, or eloquence in speaking. They shall have an abundance of wisdom to know what to say; and they shall have an irresistible eloquence to say what they ought.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

For I will give you a mouth,…. A faculty of speaking, a freedom of expression, a door of utterance, a good degree of elocution, to speak properly, pertinently and freely to any point:

and wisdom; to answer with great propriety, and in the most prudent manner, to any difficult and ensnaring question; and to furnish with such knowledge of the Gospel, and with such gifts and abilities to preach and defend it, that they should be able to give a clear and distinct account of it, and prove every point in it, by the most strong and convincing arguments, and vindicate it against all objections:

which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay or resist. This was remarkably fulfilled in Peter, and John, and in Stephen, Ac 4:13. The first word, “gainsay”, is left out in the Syriac and Persic versions.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

Your adversaries ( ). Those who stand against, line up face to face with (note –).

To withstand or to gainsay ( ). Two second aorist active infinitives with – in composition again. But these “antis” will go down before the power of Christ.

Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament

1) “For I will give you a mouth and wisdom,” (ego gar dodo humin stoma kai sophian) “For I will (then) give you both a mouth and wisdom,” Mat 10:19; Mar 13:11; 1Co 10:3.

2) “Which all your adversaries,” (he antikeimenoi humin) “Which those who oppose you,” can not successfully withstand, for “greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world,” 1Jn 4:4.

3) “Shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.” (ou dunesontai antistenai e anteipein hapantes hoi) “All those will not be able to withstand (stand against) or contradict,” because of the power of the Holy Spirit in you, Luk 12:12; Act 6:10. You will be enabled to refute wicked accusations put against you.

Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary

(15) I will give you a mouth and wisdom.The promise, even in its form, reminds us of that given to Moses when he drew back from the task of uttering Gods message to His people (Exo. 4:15-16). The inward faculty of thought, the outward power of uttering thought in words, should both be given. The words are not without their importance as bearing on the supposed distinction between verbal inspiration and that which is confined to thoughts. So far as it goes, it is against that distinction. And indeed, useful as it may seem in theory, as meeting some of the difficulties, real or supposed, which attach to the theory of verbal inspiration, it seems clear, even on purely psychological grounds, that, as men think through the medium of language, the inspiration which extends to thoughts must extend also, and under the same laws and conditions, to the words in which they are expressed. What those laws and conditions are is a wider question, on which this is not the place to enter. The answer is to be found in a reverential and careful induction from the facts which the phenomena of inspiration present to us.

Adversaries.Another favourite word of St. Pauls (1Co. 16:9; Php. 1:28, et al.), and used by no other writer in the New Testament except St. Luke.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

15. A mouth to utter and wisdom in the matter of utterance.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Luk 21:15. Which all your adversaries shall not, &c. “I will suggest to you such sentiments, and enable you to deliver them with such eloquence, that your defences shall be unanswerable; and your adversaries shall be struck with them, especially when they find by your manner that you have spoken them without premeditation.” Of the completion of this promise we have evident examples in the defences made by the proto-martyr St. Stephen, and by St. Paul, especially before king Agrippa, and the Roman governors. But there is no need to insist upon particulars; the prevalency of the gospel, wherever it reached, demonstrates, beyond all doubt, that the defences made by the preachers thereof were unanswerable. See on Mat 10:19-20.

Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke

15. ] Luke only. . corresponds to , . to .

Fuente: Henry Alford’s Greek Testament