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THE PARACLETE

elsewhere Advocate, we shall hereafter have something to say. At present we are concerned only with the Personality of the Paraclete. On this point let us consider the force of our Lord’s teaching as recorded by S. John, in the fourteenth and sixteenth chapters of his Gospel, "I will pray the Father," He says, "and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth: Whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: ye know Him; for He abideth with you, and shall be in you." Again, "The Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you." Further on in the same address, He says, "It is expedient for you that I go away; for, if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you, but if I go I will send Him unto you." And again, "When He,[1] the Spirit of truth, is come, He shall guide you into all the truth .... and He shall declare unto you the things that are to come. He shall glorify me."[2]

  1. Note here and elsewhere the masculine pronoun (Ekeinos). whereas the Greek for Spirit (Pneuma) is neuter.
  2. S. John xiv. 16; xiv. 26; xvi. 7, 13, 14.