Paraclete

PARACLETE. - Attribute of the Holy Spirit.
It means literally "he who is called near"
(παράκλητος, from παρακαλέω = "I call near"),
especially in judgment, hence advocate, defender,
patron, protector. Since the advocate also has
the office of consoling the client, and since Greek
adjectives in -τος can also have an active sense, some
understand the term in the sense of "consoler".Jesus attributes to the Holy Spirit (v.) the title
of p., implying that he himself is a p.:
" I will pray the Father and he will give you another p., so that
the Spirit of truth may remain with you forever " (Jn.
14:16 ff.; cf. 1 Jn. 2:1). He attributes to the p. the office
of teaching (Jn. 14:26), of bearing witness
in his favor (ibid. 15:26), of convicting the world
(ibid. 16:8-14).

In these passages of John the Vulgate and the Syriac,
Coptic, Ethiopic and Gothic versions limit themselves to transcribing,
without translating, the Greek term p.; instead the Armenian and
Slavonic versions translate it, narrowing the sense, with
" consoler ".

In 1 Jn. 2:1, where the author attributes the term p.
to " Jesus Christ, the righteous ", the Vulgate aptly translates the term with advocatus. It is He who is the advocate, the
defender before the Father when someone falls into sin.

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