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Paraclete

noun

The third person in the Trinity; Jesus promised the Apostles that he would send the Holy Spirit after his Crucifixion and Resurrection; it came on Pentecost. Synonyms: Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit.

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"Paraclete" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Nicea. It was not in Asia alone that the growth of Roman supremacy was resisted. There is no difficulty in selecting from ecclesiastical history proofs of the same feeling in many other quarters. Thus, when the disciples of Montanus, the Phrygian, who pretended to be the Paraclete, had converted to their doctrines and austerities the Bishop of Rome and Tertullian the Carthaginian, on the former backsliding from that faith, the latter denounced him as a Patripassian heretic. ...

— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper

... of the sex act, an unclean spirit had possession of it. This spirit can be removed only by baptism, and the Roman Catholic baptismal service even yet contains these words: "Go out of him, thou unclean spirit, and give place unto the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete." ...

— Woman and the New Race • Margaret Sanger

Words linked to "Paraclete" : hypostasis, hypostasis of Christ