Paraclete?

We are having so much rain that the water in this stream is gushing under the road on its way to the Lake.
"It is for your own good that I go away.  For if I do not go away the Paraclete will never come to you," (John 16:7)   In his translation Father Ray Brown practically repeats the Greek word because he says that no one translation captures the complexity of the functions of this one figure.  The Paraclete is a witness and a spokesman for Jesus.  He is the consoler of the disciples for he takes the place of Jesus among them.  He is their teacher and guide and so their helper.  After the resurrection of Jesus, the invisible Paraclete lives within the disciples and within us to perform these same functions.