However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
13. But when he is come, the Spirit of truth. The Spirit, whom Christ promised to the apostles, is declared to be perfect Master or Teacher “Maistre ou Docteur.” of truth And why was he promised, but that they might deliver from hand to hand the wisdom which they had received from him?
Verse 13. The Spirit of truth. So called because he would teach them all needful truth. Will guide you into all truth. That is, truth which pertained to the establishment of the Christian system, which they were not then prepared to hear.
First, It is the gospel alone that presents the Spirit of God as a comforter to poor sinners. Indeed the comforting office of the Spirit is founded on the satisfaction of Jesus Christ. When Christ had shed his blood, and in it laid down upon the nail the full price of a sinner's peace with (iod ; then at his return to heaven he prays...
Commenting on Ephesians 6:10-20