Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church,

but now an Orthodox priest serving at St. George Orthodox Cathedral in Charleston, West Virginia.

When he has come, he will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment.

Of sin because they do not believe in me.

Of righteousness because I go to my father and you see me no more.

Of judgment because the ruler of this world is judged.

I get the first one in the last one.

Okay.

Well, these are the three things.

Remember, we talked about, what's being translated here is helper.

Right.

Yeah.

That's a weird, helper is a weird translation.

Comforter is the old King James translation.

Yeah.

But the word pericletic Greek, which comes from the verb paracaleo,

refers to a number of, it can mean a comforter or comfort.

It can mean exhortation, like preaching.

It can also, that word was also used for what we would call a defense attorney.

Someone who represented someone's, yeah, an advocate, someone who represented someone's interests in court or in the king's court or, you know, or interceded for someone, another group.

So when he talks about these functions, when it says helper, and then when he has come,

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