Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth - so called for the reason mentioned in the next clause,
Is come, he will guide you into all truth, х pasan (G3956) teen (G3588) aleetheian (G225)] - rather, 'all the truth;' for the reference is not to 'truth in general,' but to 'that whole circle of truth whose burden is Christ and His redeeming work:'
For he shall not speak of himself, х af' (G575) heautou (G1438)]. The meaning is not, 'He shall not speak concerning Himself,' but 'He shall not speak from Himself;' in the sense immediately to be added.
But whatsoever he shall hear (or receive to communicate), that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come, х ta (G3588) erchomena (G2064)] - 'the things to come;' referring specially to those revelations which, in the Epistles partially, but most fully in the Apocalypse, open up a vista into the Future of the Kingdom of God, whose horizon is the everlasting hills.