Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics
and for this asked of the Father that He might be the teacher of truth;[298]
Tertullian On Modesty
Or if, again, (the pseudo-prophetic spirit) has been eager to affect this (sentiment) in accordance with "the Spirit of truth,"[277]
Verse John 15:26. _BUT WHEN THE COMFORTER IS COME_] John 14:16. Ver. John 15:26. _HE SHALL TESTIFY AND YE ALSO SHALL BEAR_ _witness_] He shall bear his testimony in your souls, and ye shall bear thi...
CHAPTER 15 1. The Vine and the Branch. (John 15:1 .) 2. Communion with Him and its Conditions.(John 15:9 .) 3. Love One Another! and the Hatred of the World. (John 15:17 .) Israel is called a vine...
JOHN 15. THE VINE. The relation of the following Chapter s to 14 has been discussed. The Parœ mia, or parable-like discourse, reminds us of the parable or metaphor of the Good Shepherd in ch. 10. Two...
WHEN THE COMFORTER IS COME. For discussion of the Comforter, his nature and work, see notes on the preceding chapter. In chapter 14:26, he says that the Father will send the Comforter in his name, whi...
THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES (John 15:1-10)...
"When the Helper comes, the Helper whom I will send to you from my Father, I mean the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will be a witness about me. And you will be witness about me b...
THE COMFORTER. See John 14:16. IS COME. shall have come. SEND. Greek. _pempo._ App-174. FROM. Greek. _para._ App-104. THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH. See on John 14:17. PROCEEDETH. goeth forth. HE. Greek. _...
_the Comforter_ Better, _the_ ADVOCATE (see on John 14:16). _whom I will send_ -I" is emphatic. Here it is the Son Who sends the Paraclete from the Father. In John 14:16 the Father sends in answer to...
ἘΓῺ ΠΈΜΨΩ. ἘΓΏ is an emphatic claim to Divinity. Here it is the Son who Bends the ADVOCATE from the Father (see on John 1:6). In John 14:16 the Father sends in answer to the Son’s prayer. In John 14:2...
VER 26. BUT WHEN THE COMFORTER IS COME, WHOM I WILL SEND TO YOU FROM THE FATHER, EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, WHICH PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER, HE SHALL TESTIFY OF ME. 27. AND YOU ALSO SHALL BEAR WITNESS,...
ΈΛΘΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ, _см._ John 15:22. ΠΑΡΆΚΛΗΤΟΣ утешитель (ем. 14:16). ΜΑΡΤΥΡΉΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΈΩ (G3140) свидетельствовать....
DISCOURSE: 1701 THE PERSONALITY AND OFFICE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT John 15:26. _When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the F...
BUT WHEN THE COMFORTER IS COME,— "For your encouragement, however, Iassure you, that all of them will not continue thus obstinately bent against me and my religion. When he who is to comfort you under...
PERSEVERING UNION OF THE PERSECUTED _Text 15:18-27_ 18 If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but be...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 15:17-27 The following is an Analysis of the closing section of John 15:— A loving heart would feign discover or induce love everywhere. To be ungratified in th...
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: BUT WHEN THE COMFORTER IS COME, WHOM I...
12 As the Lord had explained in His kingdom proclamation, the whole law was included in the one word, love. Love to God and love to man is far more than all the precepts of the law. So, in His final c...
15:26 from (h-13) with (h-24) _ Para_ with gen.. see Note d, ch. 1.14....
THE TRUE YINE. THE WITNESS OF THE COMFORTER AND OF THE APOSTLES 1-17. The allegory of the True Vine and its interpretation. The metaphor of 'the vine' was suggested by 'the fruit of the vine' which ha...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 15 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT THE *VINE AND THE BRANCHES 15:1-17 V1 Then Jesus said, ‘I am like the perfect *vine. My *Father...
BUT WHEN THE COMFORTER IS COME. — Better, _But when the Advocate is come._ (Comp. _Excursus G._) WHOM I WILL SEND UNTO YOU FROM THE FATHER. — Comp. John 14:16, and Note on John 15:26. The pronoun is h...
XIV. _ THE SPIRIT CHRIST'S WITNESS._ "If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the w...
But the work of the Apostles was not to be wholly fruitless, nor was their experience to be wholly comprised in fruitless persecution. Ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃ … περὶ ἐμοῦ. The Spirit of Truth will witness concer...
to John 16:11. _The conquest of the world by the Spirit_....
SUFFERING FOR JESUS' SAKE John 15:17-27 We have been appointed for the one purpose of bearing imperishable fruit, but our holy service to the world will never be appreciated. The world has its own go...
Our Lord now uttered the great allegory of the vine. Certain words in it arrest our attention, "the vine," "the branches," "the fruit." The close interrelationship between these is emphasized, and our...
(8) But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: (8) We will surely stand against t...
_Whom I will send. The Holy Ghost is sent by the Son: therefore he proceedeth from him also, as from the Father; though the schismatical Greeks think differently; (Bristow) otherwise, as Dr. Challoner...
CHAPTER 23 THE VALEDICTORY SERMON John 14-16. Now that the Passover meal has been enjoyed, and that celebrated Mosaic institution totally eclipsed by bloody Calvary, normally verified and abolished f...
“ _But when the support shall have come, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me;_ 27. _and you also shall testify, because you a...
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. (27) And ye also shall bear witness, beca...
In John 15:1-27 our Lord substitutes Himself for Israel, as the plant of God, responsible to bear fruit for Him on earth (not merely for man, as such, openly sinful and lost). He takes the place of th...
_WITNESS-BEARING_ ‘He shall testify of Me: And ye also shall bear witness.’ John 15:26 There seem to be three points noticeable in this passage. I. THE COMFORTER IS COMING.—Who is He? A Divine per...
26._But when the Comforter is come. _After having explained to the apostles that the Gospel ought not to be less highly valued by them, because it has many adversaries, even within the Church itself;...
The beginning of this chapter, and that which relates to the vine, belongs to the earthly portion to that which Jesus was on earth to His relationship with His disciples as on the earth, and does not...
BUT WHEN THE COMFORTER IS COME,.... Or advocate, the Spirit of God; who was to be, and has been an advocate for Christ, against the world, and for his people, against all their enemies; and who as he...
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, _even_ the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: Ver. 26. _Whom I will send unto you fr...
_If I had not done among them_, &c. If I had wrought no miracle at all among them; nay, if I had not done such extraordinary works as no other man ever did, not even their prophets, or Moses himself;...
HE SHALL TESTIFY OF ME; to the integrity and divinity of my character, and to the truth and meaning of my teachings....
BUT WHEN THE COMFORTER IS COME, WHOM I WILL SEND UNTO YOU FROM THE FATHER, EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, WHICH PROCEEDETH FROM THE FATHER, HE SHALL TESTIFY OF ME....
The hatred of the world and the testimony of the Spirit:...
THE MINISTRY OF EXHORTATION CHRIST THE TRUE VINE (vs.1-8) The Lord's ministry of comfort, or of binding up, has been seen in chapter 14. Now in chapter 15 it is that of stirring up, or of exhortatio...
26,27. The blessed Spirit will maintain the cause of Christ in the world, notwithstanding the opposition it meets with. Believers taught and encouraged by his influences, would bear testimony to Chris...
Concerning the Holy Ghost as a Comforter we have spoken largely, 1 THESSALONIANS 14:16,26; as also his mission from the Father and the Son, and in what sense he is called THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH: SEE POOL...
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4). THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH AND THE DISCIPLES MUST BEAR WITNESS TOGETHER (JOHN 15:26). The disciples, however, need not fear. They will not be left without assistance. For Jesus will send to them from th...
John 15:26-27. WHEN THE ADVOCATE IS COME, WHOM I WILL SEND ONTO YOU FROM THE FATHER, THE SPIRIT OF THE TRUTH, WHICH GOETH FORTH FROM THE FATHER, HE WILL HEAR WITNESS CONCERNING ME, AND YE ALSO BEAR WI...
We have already considered the circumstances under which the two Chapter s upon which we now enter were spoken; and, if we have been correct in the view taken of them, we are not to imagine that the f...
WHEN THE COMFORTER IS COME (οταν ελθη ο παρακλητος). Indefinite temporal clause with οταν and the second aorist active subjunctive of ερχομα, "whenever the Comforter comes."WHOM I WILL SEND UNTO YO...
John 15:26 The Promise of the Spirit witnessing of Christ in the world I. There is to be a testifying of the Spirit in the world, corresponding to our testifying to the world. His testifying is an in...
John 15:1. _I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman._ Not only the Mosaic law, but the whole creation is full of types of Christ. All the vines that we see in this world are only as it we...
John 15:12. _This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you._ O beloved, do keep this commandment! Overlook each other's infirmities. Bear with each other's faults. Love one an...
John 15:9. _As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you:_ Oh, drink this nectar down! It is as when Cleopatra dissolved the pearl into a single draught; for here is the choicest pearl of truth t...
Many of you know the words of this chapter by heart; you could repeat them without a mistake. May the savor of them abide in your hearts even as the letter of them abides in your memory! John 15:1. _...
CONTENTS: Jesus' discourse on the vine and the branches. The believer and the world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples. CONCLUSION: Jesus is the true vine, in which the life of believers, as abiding...
John 15:1. _I am the true vine._ The vine through every age had designated the Hebrew church; here the Lord employs it to designate the Christian church, of which he is the head, and the source of lif...
THE HELPER WILL COME. The Holy Spirit. See _chapter 14._ HE WILL SPEAK ABOUT ME. [He will not speak about himself!] This is explained in John 16:13-15....
_But when the Comforter is come_ THE HOLY SPIRIT: HIS WORK AND MISSION I. THE HOLY SPIRIT. 1. Our text speaks of the Holy Spirit as a Person. “He shall testify;” “and ye also” (see also Joh_16:7-8;...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 15:26 THE HELPER is the Holy Spirit; see notes on 14:16–17; 14:26. WHOM I WILL SEND... WHO PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER. Both the Fa
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 15:18. IF THE WORLD HATE YOU, ETC.—He now directs the attention of the disciples to their relation toward the world. Christ _loves_ His disciples, the world _hat...
EXPOSITION JOHN 15:1 (7) _The parable of the vine and its branches_._ Incorporation of the disciples into one personality with himself_._ _The image of the vine may have been suggested by some visib...
Tonight let's turn now to John's gospel chapter 15, as we follow Jesus in His last hours prior to the cross. Jesus had been at the last supper with His disciples there in the upper room somewhere in J...
1 Corinthians 1:6; 1 John 5:6; Acts 15:8; Acts 2:32; Acts 2:33;...
When the Comforter is come, whom I will send from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me — The Spirit's coming, and being sent by our Lord from the Fat...
Here our Holy Lord confirms himself, that, though he had laid them under many aspersions and scandals from the world, yet all these should be done away by the coming of the Holy Spirit who should test...