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Articles_of_he_Bishop_of_Uramiah, page : 476
Periqlytos, that he may stay with you for ever" (John xiv. 16, etc.).
There is some incoherency in the words ascribed to
Jesus by the Fourth Gospel. It reads as if several Periqlytes
had already come and gone, and that "another Periqlytos"
would be given only at the request of Jesus. These words
also leave behind the impression that the Apostles were
already made familiar with this name which the Greek text
renders Periqlytos. The adjective "another" preceding a
foreign noun for the first time announced seems very strange
and totally superfluous. There is no doubt that the text
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has been tampered with and distorted. It pretends that
the Father will send the Periqlyte at the request of Jesus,
otherwise the Periqlyte would never have come! The word
There is some incoherency in the words ascribed to
Jesus by the Fourth Gospel. It reads as if several Periqlytes
had already come and gone, and that "another Periqlytos"
would be given only at the request of Jesus. These words
also leave behind the impression that the Apostles were
already made familiar with this name which the Greek text
renders Periqlytos. The adjective "another" preceding a
foreign noun for the first time announced seems very strange
and totally superfluous. There is no doubt that the text
111
has been tampered with and distorted. It pretends that
the Father will send the Periqlyte at the request of Jesus,
otherwise the Periqlyte would never have come! The word