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Paraclete (/ ˈ p æ r ə k l iː t /; Greek: παράκλητος, romanized: paráklētos) is a Christian biblical term occurring five times in the Johannine texts of the New Testament. In Christian theology, the word commonly refers to the Holy Spirit and is translated as 'advocate', 'counsellor', or 'helper'.
Three separate terms, namely Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth, and Paraclete, are used in Johannine literature. [2] The "Spirit of Truth" is used in John 14:17, 15:26 and 16:13. [3] The First Epistle of John then contrasts this with the "spirit of error" in 1 John 4:6.
There are biblical translations where the pronoun used for the Holy Spirit is masculine, in contrast to the gender of the noun used for spirit in Hebrew and Aramaic. [3] In Aramaic also, the language generally considered to have been spoken by Jesus, the word is feminine. However, in Greek the word (pneuma) is neuter. [3]
What the Hebrew Bible calls "Spirit of God" and "Spirit of Elohim" is called in the Talmud and Midrash "Holy Spirit" (ruacḥ ha-kodesh). Although the expression "Holy Spirit" occurs in Ps. 51:11 and in Isa. 63:10–11, it had not yet acquired quite the same meaning which was attached to it in rabbinical literature: in the latter it is ...
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Montanism (/ ˈ m ɒ n t ə ˌ n ɪ z əm /), known by its adherents as the New Revelation, was an early Christian movement [broken anchor] of the mid-to-late 2nd century, later referred to by the name of its founder, Montanus. [1]
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