He shall give you another Comforter,— Or, another advocate. The word παρακλητον, signifies an advocate or a monitor, as well as a comforter; and it is evident that the blessed Spirit maintained each of these characters; yet as the discourse before us is of the consolatory kind, the term comforter seems to have been made use of with great propriety by our translators. Our Lord promises his apostles, that this Comforter shall abide with them, not for a little time, as he had done in his human nature, but for ever; and he calls him The Spirit of truth, to which the world is ever averse; and, blinded with sensuality, will neither discern his operations, nor partake of his joys. "But ye know him, because he is with you, in some measure, already; and he shall be given you much more abundantly hereafter;" alluding particularly to the day of Pentecost; from which time forth the Spirit dwelt in them by a much ampler communication of his gifts and graces.
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John 14:16-17
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.