παράκλητος

paravklhto" paravklhto",
paraklhtou,
oJ (
parakalevw), properly, summoned, called to one's side, especially called to one's aid; hence,1. "one who pleads another's cause before a judge, a pleader, counsel for defense, legal assistant; an advocate": Demosthenes, p. 341, 11; Diogenes La?rtius 4, 50, cf. Dio Cassius, 46, 20.2. universally, one who pleads another's cause with one, an intercessor: Philo, de mund. opif. sec. 59; de Josepho sec. 40; in Flaccum sections 3 and 4; so of Christ, in his exaltation at God's right hand, pleading with God the Father for the pardon of our sins, (in the same sense, of the divine Logos in Philo, vita Moys. iii. sec. 14).3. in the widest sense, a helper, succorer, aider, assistant; so of the Holy Spirit destined to take the place of Christ with the apostles (after his ascension to the Father), to lead them to a deeper knowledge of gospel truth, and to give them the divine strength needed to enable them to undergo trials and persecutions on behalf of the divine kingdom: ,; ; , cf. f; ; f (Philo de mund. opif. sec. 6 at the beginning says that God in creating the world had no need of a
paravklhto", an adviser, counsellor, helper. The Targums and Talmud borrow the Greek words fyliq]r'P] and af;yliq]r'P] and use them of any intercessor, defender, or advocate; cf. Baxtorf, Lex. Talm., p. 1843 ((edited by Fischer, p. 916)); so Targ. on for $ylime &a;l]m', i. e. an angel that pleads man's cause with God; (cf.
plousivwn
paraklhtoi in `Teaching' etc. 5 under the end; the Epistle of Barnabas 20, 2; Apostolic Constitutions 7, 18)). Cf. Knapp, Scripta varii Argumenti, p. 124ff; D?sterdieck on , p. 147ff; (Watkins, Excursus G, in Ellicott's N. T. Commentary for English Readers; Westcott in the Speaker's commentary Additional Note on ; Schaff in Lange ibid.).*