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    BIBLICAL CRITICISM

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    OBSERVATIONS ON JOHN XIV . 16 , 17 . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , If the following observations are thought worthy of a place in your valuable work , by inserting them you will oblige your

    constant reader , J . M . In biblical criticism there is not a passage in the Christian Scriptures more deserving of serious attention than the promise of our Lord to his apostles ( contained in the 16 th and 17 th verses of the 14 th chapter of the Gospel according to St . John ) ,

    that his Father would send them " another comforter , " on account of its importance as a key to the whole of what follows respecting the Spirit under that character , the errors of the common translation , and the conclusions which are drawn from it in proof of the personality of the Holy Spirit . The words

    are , € * 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 , because it seeth him not , neither knoweth him ; but ye know him j for he dwelleth with you , and shall be in you . "

    We learn from the context that our Lord had just before informed his disciples that he should be betrayed by one of them , and delivered into the hands of his enemies , who would put him to death . On this account sorrow had filled their hearts : to

    prepare them for , and to support them under that trying scene , he delivers to them the consolatory discourse contained in this and the two following chapters , in which he assures them of the most solid support and consolation foam the comforter whom he would send unto them in his name . The word

    vjfzpxKknros , rendered comforter , is applied to the Holy Spirit in connexion with this promise ; but in no other instance is it applied to the Holy Spirit in the New Testament . The word occurs only in one other passage , 1 John ii . l . where it is applied to Jesjus Christ , ana is rendered , as it should have been

    here , % a advocate . This appellation , although a noun of the masculine gender , is not the proper name of a person , but i& expressive of an office sustained by a person in relation to others , T&e promise of the Spirit as another comforter or advocate , represents it as supplying the place of Jesus Christ , and repairing the loss they would sustain by his removal from them— " I irul not leave you comfortless , I will pray the Father and he will

    Biblical Criticism

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/26/