Strictly speaking the word paraclete means the defence counsel. From Wordnik.com. [Leaving satan behind] Reference
And it is very observable, that this very word paraclete, though it be not a. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08.] Reference
After that came Eusebius of Cæsarea, who taught that the spirit paraclete is neither of Father nor Son. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
The result of Socrates 'losing his way in thought and ending up stymied in Agathon's neighbor's porch is that Aristodemus, like a proper Socratic paraclete, arrives at Agathon's quite a bit before Socrates. From Wordnik.com. [Plato on Friendship and Eros] Reference
One might imagine that Gnostic Aslan as a weaker paraclete, one whose abandonment of Narnia is only the necessary relocation of a limited force of light called away to battle evil on another front, a Phildickian saviour-in-hiding who “must invade reality in order to redeem it”. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Narnia] Reference
Manes was the paraclete sent to complete his teaching; the body was evil, and only by long struggle and mortification could man be delivered from it, and reach final blessedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History] Reference
The greatest triumph that can be effected with the truly heart-stricken victim, to whom is denied the usual bursts that indicate a bearable misfortune, or, at least, one whose intensity is partly abated, is the bringing about of that more natural condition of the heart, which, indeed, is generally most feared by the ordinary paraclete. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17] Reference
(person) by paraclete. From Wordnik.com. [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference
For laughter, paraclete of pain. From Wordnik.com. [Op. I.] Reference
Spirit to be a paraclete ( "comforter," "advisor," or. From Wordnik.com. [Experimental Theology] Reference
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