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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
To enable them to sustain His bodily departure more cheerfully, He promises that that departure shall be the source of great benefit; for that while He was then in the body, they could never know much, because the Spirit would not have come: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, Whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (Hom. lxxv. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
He frequently mentions the Comforter because of the grief that grips them, giving them good hope that He will guide them. "The Comforter will come in My name." This means: He will not teach you anything foreign to My teaching, will not seek His own glory, but will come in My name, that is, for the glory of My name, and not His own, as hostile teachers do who draw followers after themselves. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"But the Comforter," He adds, "which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." Is it, then, that the Son speaks, and the Holy Spirit teaches, so that we merely get hold of the words that are uttered by the Son, and then understand them by the teaching of the Spirit? …
Ambrose of Milan
For he who came in the name of the Son surely also came in the name of the Father, for the name of the Father and of the Son is one. Thus it comes about that the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit is one.
Gregory the Dialogist
Paraclete is Advocate, or Comforter. The Advocate then intercedes with the Father for sinners, when by His inward power He moves the sinner to pray for himself. The Comforter relieves the sorrow of penitents, and cheers them with the hope of pardon. (Hom. xxx.) Unless the Spirit be present to the mind of the hearer, the word of the teacher is vain. …
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