TNDL: "WHO AND WHAT DID YESHUA, THE HEBREW MESSIAH, SAY HE WOULD PRAY TO HIS ETERNAL FATHER TO LEAD, TEACH AND GUIDE HIS TRUE FOLLOWERS INTO ALL TRUTH, A BOOK OR THE PARACLETE?
JOHN 14 :12-18."
The Holy Spirit Paraclete
In John 14:16-17, "paraclete" is Παράκλητον and "spirit” is Πνεῦμα (Pneuma), meaning "breath". "Pneuma" appears over 250 times in the Christian New Testament, and is the word used to refer to the Holy Spirit, i.e., the Spirit of God. As a result of the immediate explanation in John 14:17, the Paraclete in John 14:16 is considered to be the Holy Sprit.
The New Testament Studies, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press, describes a "striking similarity" between the defined attributes of what the Paraclete is, and is to do, and what the outcome of Christian prophecy has spoken to, explaining the Paraclete as the post-Passover gift of the Holy Spirit. "The Paraclete represents the Spirit as manifested in a particular way, as a pneumatic Christian speech charisma. Every verb describing the ministry of the Paraclete is directly related to his speech function."[6]
The early church identified the Paraclete as the Holy Spirit.[7] In first-century Jewish and Christian understanding, the presence of the Holy Spirit is to claim rebirth of prophecy.[6]
During his period as a hermit in the mid-12th century, Peter Abelard dedicated his chapel to the Paraclete because "I had come there as a fugitive and, in the depths of my despair, was granted some comfort by the grace of God."[8]
Scholarly interpretations
John 14:16 quotes Jesus as saying "another Paraclete" will come to help his disciples, implying, according to Lawrence Lutkemeyer, that Jesus is the first and primary Paraclete.[9] In 1 John 2:1 Jesus himself is called "paraclete".
Raymond Brown (1970),[10][11] supported by George Johnston (2005),[12] also says that the "another Paraclete" of John 14:16 is in many ways another Jesus, the presence of Jesus after Jesus ascends to his Father.[9][13]
The Gospel of Matthew twice uses the passive form of the corresponding verb παρακαλῶ, in 2:18 and 5:4. In both instances, the context is of mourning, and the meaning of the verb is "to be comforted".[14]
Paraclete first appearing in gospel
Here is the context of the passage in John 14:15-14:27[15] with the translation of Paraclete as Advocate shown in bold:
15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth.[6] The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.[6] 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.[9] 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.[6][9] 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.[6][9] 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit,[6] whom the Father will send in my name,[9] will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.[6][
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