Advocate or Paraclete

One that pleads the cause of another. In its technical sense, the office was unknown to the Jews till they became subject to the Romans. It is applied to Christ as our intercessor, 1 John 2:1; compare Romans 8:34 Hebrews 7:25; and to the Holy Spirit, as our teacher and comforter, John 14:16 15:26.

3875. parakletos -- called to one's aid
... Noun, Masculine Transliteration: parakletos Phonetic Spelling: (par-ak'-lay-tos)
Short Definition: an advocate, comforter, helper, Paraclete Definition: (a) an ...
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The Last Discourses of Christ - the Prayer of Consecration.
... Now that His outward Presence was to be withdrawn from earth, and He was to be their
Paraclete or Advocate in Heaven with the Father, [5738] He would, as His ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xi the last discourses.htm

St. Ambrose Shows from the Scriptures that the Name of the Three ...
... is one Paraclete, the Holy Spirit another Paraclete; for John called the Son a
Paraclete, as you find: "If any man sin, we have a Paraclete [Advocate] with the ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xiii st ambrose shows.htm

Argument. --He Next Teaches us that the Authority of the Faith ...
... Lord was about to depart to the heavens, He gave the Paraclete out of ... orphans, [5265]
which was little desirable, and forsake them without an advocate and some ...
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The Comforter
... the word untranslated, and gives it "Paraclete." "But the Paraclete, which is ... you
another monitor, another teacher." Frequently it means "Advocate;" but the ...
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John Chapter xiv. 15-17.
... For paraclete is in Latin called advocatus (advocate); and it is said of Christ,
"We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." [1331] But ...
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The Comforter Given
... And that is the idea which is to be attached to the word here:"a Comforter who makes
strong by His presence; the Paraclete, who is our Advocate, Helper, Guide ...
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He Proceeds to Discuss the views Held by Eunomius
... 1. (The word is in the AV rendered "advocate."). [459] From which is derived the
name Paraclete, ie Comforter or Advocate. [460] 2 Corinthians 7:6. ...
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Appendix 4 1 John 2:2
... you, that ye may not sin; and if any one should sin, a Paraclete we have ... repentant
believer (1 John 1:9) be assured that, first, he has an "Advocate with the ...
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Unity of the Three Divine Persons.
... are not then either three Fathers, [1315] or three Sons, or three Paracletes, but
one Father, and one Son, and one Paraclete. ... 1310] ie, "Advocate" or "Comforter ...
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Of the Inconsistencies of the Psychics.
... of the imminence either of temptations to befall the Church, or of plagues to befall
the world, in His character of Paraclete (that is, Advocate for the ...
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Advocate

Advocate or Paraclete

Advocate: Figurative

Advocate: Tertullus

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