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Articles_of_he_Bishop_of_Uramiah, page : 449
The Fourth Gospel, too, like every other book of the
New Testament, was written in Greek and not in Aramaic,
which was the mother-tongue of Jesus and his disciples.
Consequently, we are again confronted with the same
difficulty which we met with when we were discussing the
"Eudokia" of St. Luke, namely: What word or name was
it that Jesus used in his native tongue to express that which
the Fourth Gospel has translated as "the Paraclete" and
which has been converted into "comforter" in all the ver-
sions of that Gospel?
Before discussing the etymology and the true significa-
tion of this unclassical or rather corrupt form of the Para-
clete it is necessary to make a brief observation upon one
particular feature of St. John's Gospel. The authorship
New Testament, was written in Greek and not in Aramaic,
which was the mother-tongue of Jesus and his disciples.
Consequently, we are again confronted with the same
difficulty which we met with when we were discussing the
"Eudokia" of St. Luke, namely: What word or name was
it that Jesus used in his native tongue to express that which
the Fourth Gospel has translated as "the Paraclete" and
which has been converted into "comforter" in all the ver-
sions of that Gospel?
Before discussing the etymology and the true significa-
tion of this unclassical or rather corrupt form of the Para-
clete it is necessary to make a brief observation upon one
particular feature of St. John's Gospel. The authorship