5: But now I go my way to him that sent me[1] and none of you asks me Where do you go 6: But
because I have said these things to you sorrow has filled your hearts 7:
Nevertheless I tell you the truth It is to your advantage that I go away if I
go not away parakletos[2] will not come to you but if I depart I will send[3] her[4] to you 8: And when that one is come the same will
reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment 9: Of sin
because they believe not on me 10: Of righteousness because I go to my
Father and you see me no more 11: Of judgment because the prince of this
world is judged 12: I have yet many things to say to you but you cannot
bear them now 13: Howbeit when ekeinos[5] the Spirit of truth is come the same will guide you into
all truth for she shall not speak of herself but whatever she shall hear that
shall she speak and she will shew you things to come 14: Ekeinos shall glorify me for the same
shall receive of mine and shall show it to you 15: All things that the
Father holds are mine therefore said I that she shall take of mine and shall show
it to you
[1] This verse cannot be used to establish
hierarchy within the Godhead, as complementarian leaders claim, Jesus is the
Prince of Peace who is also the Everlasting Father (Father of Eternity) Isaiah
9:6. Isaiah 9:6 is just one of many verses that establish Jesus’ identity
as YHWH (Jehovah)—Almighty God himself.
[2] Parakletos G3875 Summoned;
Called to one’s side; Called to one’s aid; One who pleads another’s cause
before a Judge; Advocate; A pleader; Counsel for defense; Legal assistant; In
the widest sense a helper, succorer, aider, assistant (Thayer).
[3] Again, it is ludicrous to assume from
this statement that, within the Godhead, Jesus ranks above the Holy Spirit in a
military-like hierarchy. Within the Being we know as the Godhead, the Holy
Spirit is referenced, in scripture, as being God himself Acts 5:3-4.
[4] The Greek word, parakletos is a
masculine noun that can refer to advocates in general whether heavenly or human
(and in the culture of Ancient Greece, Advocates were always male), but it is
universally agreed that the parakletos, in this verse, is a reference to the
Holy Spirit. In the Torah, The Holy
Spirit is always referred in
the feminine, as RUWACH, e.g., “And Ruwach Elohiym fluttered
over the face of the waters…”
[5] Ekeinos can be translated as she,
he, it, etc.. There is no textual basis for translating the Greek word, ekeinos,
as “he,” in reference to the Holy Spirit—who is consistently referred to (in
the Pentateuch/Torah) as feminine. This awkward fact is
one reason complementarians are desperate to prove a non-existent hierarchy
within the Godhead.
Jocelyn
Andersen is best known for her book, Woman Submit! Christians
& Domestic Violence. She is also editor of the Hungry
Hearts Online Bible Commentary
For more information about her work, visit her website at www.JocelynAndersen.com
Her
study entitled, Trinity
Marriage and the Godhead, (Volume 1 of the God Women Ministry series)
examines and refutes the theory of hierarchy within the eternal Godhead.
Untranslated words in JOHN CHAPTER 16 (additional commentary
pending for this chapter)
Ekeinos G1565 The one
there; That one; That thing or time; Used of persons, things, times somewhat
remote from the speaker (Thayer)
Parakletos G3875 Summoned;
Called to one’s side; Called to one’s aid; One who pleads another’s cause
before a Judge; Advocate; A pleader; Counsel for defense; Legal assistant; In
the widest sense a helper, succorer, aider, assistant (Thayer)
Theos G2316 Deity; god; The reason the word, Theos, is largely left untranslated in
this commentary, is to put to rest erroneous teaching that the word must be
prefaced by the definite article “ho” (meaning “the” or “of”) in order to be
translated as referring to Yahweh (Jehovah).
In fact, most New Testament scripture references to Theos are not introduced using the definite article, “ho,”
but even in those cases, it is clear when Almighty is or is not being
referenced—especially in the case of John 1:1, where John, a Jew who would
never commit blasphemy by calling anyone who was not YHWH “A” god. When John called
Jesus “God,” he was specifically stating that Jesus is YHWH [Yahweh].
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