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And I will pray the Father (kagō erōtēsō ton patera). Erōtaō for prayer, not question (the old use), also in Joh 16:23 (prayer to Jesus in same sense as aiteō), Joh 14:26 (by Jesus as here); Joh 17:9 (by Jesus), “make request of.”
Another Comforter (allon paraklēton). Another of like kind (allon, not heteron), besides Jesus who becomes our Paraclete, Helper, Advocate, with the Father (1Jo 2:1, Cf. Rom 8:26.). This old word (Demosthenes), from parakaleō, was used for legal assistant, pleader, advocate, one who pleads another’s cause (Josephus, Philo, in illiterate papyrus), in N.T. only in John’s writings, though the idea of it is in Rom 8:26-34. Cf. Deissmann, Light, etc., p. 336. So the Christian has Christ as his Paraclete with the Father, the Holy Spirit as the Father’s Paraclete with us (Joh 14:16, Joh 14:26; Joh 15:26; Joh 16:7; 1Jo 2:1).
For ever (eis ton aiōna). This the purpose (hina) in view and thus Jesus is to be with his people here forever (Mat 28:20). See Joh 4:14 for the idiom.