[B-Greek] question about parakleitos

James Spinti JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com
Tue Jun 6 08:11:23 EDT 2006


Raymond Brown's Anchor Bible commentary "Epistles of John" has an excellent excursus on PARAKLHTOS under the passage from I John. I would highly recommend reading it.

HTH,
James

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> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Doug Chaplin
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 6:19 PM
> To: B-Greek
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] question about parakleitos
> 
> 
> <SNIP>
> > 
> >   LSJ gives this
> >   PARAKLHTOS, ON, called to one's aid, in a court of justice: as
> > Subst.&#65279;, legal assistant, advocate, D.&#65279;19.1,
> > Lycurg.&#65279;Fr.&#65279;102, etc.&#65279;
> >   2. summoned, äï&#8166;ëïé D.C.&#65279;46.20, cf.&#65279;
> > BGU&#65279;601.12 (ii a.d.).
> >   II. intercessor, Ph.&#65279;2.520: hence in NT&#65279;, 
> PARAKLHTOS, of
> > the Holy Spirit, Ev.Jo.&#65279;14.16, cf.&#65279;
> > 1&#65279;Ep.Jo.&#65279;2.1.
> 
> [Doug] Despite this meaning (II) intercessor, I'd want to 
> express the view
> that in John's gospel, the primary denotation is legal, and it goes
> alongside the idea of witnesses and judgement as an extended 
> trial metaphor
> running throughout the gospel. No doubt there are many people 
> for whom the
> paraphrase "I'll send you another lawyer" is anything but good news!
> 
> Doug Chaplin
> Droitwich Spa
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