[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
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> <SNIP>
> >
> > LSJ gives this
> > PARAKLHTOS, ON, called to one's aid, in a court of justice: as
> > Subst., legal assistant, advocate, D.19.1,
> > Lycurg.Fr.102, etc.
> > 2. summoned, äïῦëïé D.C.46.20, cf.
> > BGU601.12 (ii a.d.).
> > II. intercessor, Ph.2.520: hence in NT,
> PARAKLHTOS, of
> > the Holy Spirit, Ev.Jo.14.16, cf.
> > 1Ep.Jo.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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