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(Gr. parakletos), one who pleads another's cause, who helps another by defending or comforting him. It is a name given by [[Text:EBD:Christ|Christ ]] three times to the [[Text:EBD:Holy Ghost|Holy Ghost ]] (John 14:16; 15:26; 16:7, where the [[Text:EBD:Greek|Greek ]] word is rendered "[[Text:EBD:Comforter|Comforter]]," q.v.). It is applied to Christ in 1 John 2:1, where the same Greek word is rendered "Advocate," the rendering which it should have in all the places where it occurs. [[Text:EBD:wikipedia:Tertullus |Tertullus]] "the orator" (Acts 24:1) was a [[wikipedia:Ancient Rome|Roman ]] advocate whom the [[Jew|Jews ]] employed to accuse [[Text:EBD:Paul|Paul ]] before [[Text:EBD:Felix|Felix]].

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