Advocate: (Gr. parakletos), one who pleads another's cause, who helps another by
defending or comforting him. It is a name given by Christ three times
to the Holy Ghost
(John 14:16; 15:26; 16:7) where the Greek word is
rendered "Comforter," q.v.). It is applied to Christ in
(1 John 2:1)
where the same Greek word is rendered "Advocate," the rendering
which it should have in all the places where it occurs. Tertullus
"the orator"
(Acts 24:1) was a Roman advocate whom the Jews
employed to accuse Paul before Felix.
