Matthew Poole and continuators on John 14:26

26 But the Comforter, which is the holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my Name , he shall teach you all things , and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you .

The word is the same, which was so translated before; (see the import of it, ver. 16, 17) he is either called the Comforter, and the Spirit of truth here, the Holy Spirit. The Father here is said to send in the name, that is, with the Authority, and upon the Mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ: and two pieces of the Spirits work besides Comforting, are here expressed.

He shall more fully explain to you all things: three of the Apostles themselves had already in this Chapter discovered great degrees of ignorance as to the Doctrine of the Trinity, Christs Union or Oneness with his Father, &c. You shall not be left (saith our Saviour) in this ignorance; for when the holy Spirit shall come, he shall more fully and perfectly instruct you in all things, which I have already instructed you, and which are necessary for you to know in order to your eternal happiness:

and shall bring to your remembrance the things I have taught you, so as you shall more fully and clearly understand them; and tho you may have forgotten them, yet they shall by the holy Spirit be received in your memories, so as they shall not be like water spilt on the ground, which cannot again be gathered up, but like seed sown in the Earth, which tho it may at present rot, and die under the clods, or at least not Spring up; yet it shall spring up, and bring forth desired fruit. It is one great work of the holy Spirit, to bring the revelations of holy Writ to our remembrance, and withall to clear to us the sense of them, and confirm our faith in them, and chiefly quicken us to practice what is our duty: but it is to be observed, that the Spirit doth not make revelations of new Notions; it onely brings to our remembrance what Christ hath said, and further revealeth what was before in the word revealed, tho possibly particular persons were ignorant of such revelations of the word: so things may be new, and newly revealed to us, which in themselves are not so. There are no new truths, but particular persons may have new discoveries of old truth, which they had before misappr[illegible: 2 letters]ensions of.

Marginal references: Chap. 16.13. 1 Joh. 2.20, 27.