もうひとりの助け主
イエスが約束した助け主ということばなにを意味しているのだろうか?
イエスは”もうひとりの助け主”と接頭語をつけている。ということは最初の助け主は
イエス自身のことか?
英語版では
John 14:16New International Version (NIV)
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—
助け主にAdvocate(援護)をあてている。
16節の前後を追加してみよう。
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper,[f] to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be[g] in you.
18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.
わたしは助け主は聖霊を意味しているのかとおもったら
聖霊は救い主という概念に含まれているようだ。
”even the Spirit of truth"とあるからだ。
イエスは助け主を送るのに条件をつけている。
ということは条件である
”イエスを愛し、命令をまもる”ことをしなければ助け主をおくれないのか?