John 14:16 (WEB)
I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:
Catechism · 2
In the Fullness of Time
“Even more, what the Father gives us when our prayer is united with that of Jesus is "another Counselor, to be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 14:16-17.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“Only when the hour has arrived for his glorification does Jesus promise the coming of the Holy Spirit, since his Death and Resurrection will fulfill the promise made to the fathers.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 14:16-17, 26; 15:26; 16:7-15; 17:26.
Fathers and councils · 43
Gregory of Nyssa
“For the Son gives the name of “Comforter” equally to Himself and to the Holy Spirit; and the Father, where He is said to work comfort, surely claims as His own the name of “Comforter.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 16
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“…race, do not admit that aspect [of the evangelical dispensation] presented by John’s Gospel, in which the Lord promised that He would send the Paraclete; but set aside at once both the Gospel and the prophetic Spirit.” — editor's note: John xiv. 16, etc.
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Tertullian
“…a disposition (of mutual relations in the Godhead); for He says, “I will pray the Father, and He shall send you another Comforter…even the Spirit of truth,” thus making the Paraclete distinct from Himself, even as we say that the Son is also distinct from the Father; so that He showed a third degree in the…” — editor's note: John xiv. 16.
Read the whole comment“He is called “another Comforter,” indeed; but in what way He is another we have already shown, “He shall receive of mine,” says Christ, just as Christ Himself received of the Father’s.” — editor's note: John xiv. 16.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…as the Spirit of Truth, is declared, when it is said, And I will give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever, even the Spirit of Truth; and again, But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth.” — editor's note: Ib. vv. 16, 17.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“And he, confessing this with a loud voice, was himself taken into the order of the witnesses, being called the Advocate of the Christians, but having the Advocate in himself, the Spirit more abundantly than Zacharias.” — editor's note: παρ€κλητον; cf. John xiv. 16.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And Thou, O Lord, hadst already magnified Thy Holy One, raising Him from the dead, and setting Him at Thy right hand, whence from on high He should send His promise, the Paraclete, “the Spirit of Truth.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment“For what does He mean by saying, “If ye love me, keep my commandments; and I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,” that is, the lovers of the world?” — editor's note: John xiv. 15–17
Read the whole comment“But the Scripture itself meets this carnal idea; for it says a little above: “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 16–23
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John Chrysostom
“John xiv. 15–17” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Some assert, that she asked for spiritual grace, because she had heard Him when with the disciples say, “If I go to the Father, ‘I will ask Him, and He shall give you another Comforter.’” ( c. xiv. 3, 16.)” — the author cites it
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Leo the Great
“…in their nature, as He says, “I will ask the Father and He shall give you another Comforter that He may be with you for ever, even the Spirit of Truth;” and again: “But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all…” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 16.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“XX. “If any man denies that, as the Lord has taught us, the Paraclete is different from the Son; for He said, And the Father shall send you another Comforter, whom I shall ask: let him be anathema.” — editor's note: John xiv. 16.
Read the whole comment“And again, I will ask the Father and He shall send you another Advocate, that He may be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth.” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 16, 17.
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Basil the Great
“And as Paraclete He expresses in Himself the goodness of the Paraclete who sent Him, and in His own dignity manifests the majesty of Him from whom He proceeded.” — editor's note: παράκλητος occurs five times in the N.T., and is rendered in A.V. in John xiv. 16 and 26, xv. 26 and xvi. 7, Comforter; in 1 John ii. 1 Advocate, as applied to…
Read the whole comment“He is called Paraclete, like the Only begotten, as He Himself says, “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another comforter.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 16, παράκλητον. cf. Note on p. 29.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…[Paraclete], that He may be with you for ever, even the Spirit of Truth, Whom this world cannot receive; because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment“And therefore does the Lord Jesus say in the Gospel: “I will ask My Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, to be with you for ever, even the Spirit of Truth.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 16.
Read the whole comment“But the Holy Spirit also was given, for it is written: “I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 16.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And further these,—His ignorance, subjection, prayer, asking, increase, being made perfect.” — editor's note: John xiv. 16.
Read the whole comment“I will ask the Father, He says, and He will send you another Comforter, even the spirit of Truth.” — editor's note: John xiv. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment“…daughters, and the rest; and then afterwards by Jesus, being glorified by Him, and giving back glory to Him, as He was glorified by and glorified the Father.” — editor's note: John xiv. 16.
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Catena Aurea on John
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Our Lord having said, Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that I will do; that they might not think simply asking would be enough, He adds, If ye love Me, keep My commandments. And then I will do what ye ask, seems…
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Wherein He shews too that He Himself is the Comforter. Paraclete means advocate, and is applied to Christ: We have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. (1 John 2:1)
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Paraclete, i. e. Comforter. They had then one Comforter, who comforted and elevated them by the sweetness of His miracles, and His preaching.
Read the whole comment - Didymus the BlindCatena Aurea on John
But the Holy Ghost was another Comforter: differing not in nature, but in operation. For whereas our Saviour in His office of Mediator, and of Messenger1, and as High Priest, made supplication for our sins; the Holy…
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He says, I will ask the Father, to make them believe Him: which they could not have done, had He simply said, I will send.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Yet to shew that His works are inseparable from His Father’s, He says below, When I shall go, I will send Him unto you.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
But what had He more than the Apostles, if He could only ask the Father to give others the Spirit? The Apostles did this often even without praying.
Read the whole comment - Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John
I will ask—He says, as being the inferior in respect of His humanity—My Father, with Whom I am equal and consubstantial in respect of My Divine nature.
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That He may abide with you for ever. The Spirit does not depart even at death. He intimates too that the Holy Ghost will not suffer death, or go away, as He has done. But that the mention of the Comforter might not…
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This is the Holy Ghost in the Trinity, Whom the Catholic faith professes to be consubstantial and coeternal with the Father and the Son.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
The Spirit of truth He calls Him, because He unfolds the figures of the Old Testament. The world are the wicked, seeing is certain knowledge; sight being the most certain of the senses.
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Note too, that when He calls the Holy Spirit the Spirit of truth, He shews that the Holy Spirit is His Spirit: then when He says He is given by the Father, He declares Him to be the Spirit of the Father also. Thus…
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The Holy Spirit kindles in every one, in whom He dwells, the desire of things invisible. And since worldly minds love only things visible, this world receiveth Him not, because it rises not to the love of things…
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Thus the world, i. e. the lovers of the world, cannot, He says, receive the Holy Spirit: that is to say, unrighteousness cannot be righteous. The world, i. e. the lovers of the world, cannot receive Him, because it…
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As if He said, He will not dwell with you as I have done, but will dwell in your souls.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
To be in a place is prior to dwelling. Be in you, is the explanation of dwell with you: i. e. shews that the latter means not that He is seen, but that He is known, He must be in us, that the knowledge of Him may be…
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But if the Holy Spirit abides in the disciples, how is it a special mark of the Mediator that He abides in Him. (supr. 1:32. ἐπʼ αὐτὸν) We shall better understand, if we distinguish between the different gifts of the…
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This speech levels at a stroke, as it were, the opposite heresies. The word another, shews the distinct personality of the Spirit: the word Paraclete, His consubstantiality.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
Comforter, the title of the Holy Spirit, the third Person in the Trinity, the Apostle applies to God: God that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us. (2 Cor. 7:6) The Holy Spirit therefore Who comforts…
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But when the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us, (Rom. 5:6) how shall we love and keep the commandments of Christ, so as to receive the Spirit, when we are not able to…
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When He had cleansed His disciples by the sacrifice of His passion, and their sins were remitted, and they were sent forth to dangers and trials, it was necessary that they should receive the Holy Spirit abundantly.…
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Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 25.
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Cited together in Catechism §729 and 1 other place.
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Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 14:15–17 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.2.
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Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 14:15–17 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.13.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 9.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.2.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 25.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Church History V.1.