of Jesus Christ was to
be thenceforth the divinely established talisman by which the powers of
heaven could be invoked to operate in any righteous undertaking.

The Holy Ghost was promised to the apostles; He would be sent through
Christ's intercession, to be to them "another Comforter," or as rendered
in later translations, "another Advocate" or "Helper," even the Spirit
of Truth, who, though the world would reject Him as they had rejected
the Christ, should dwell with the disciples, and in them even as Christ
then dwelt in them and the Father in Him. "I will not leave you
comfortless," Jesus assured the brethren, "I will come to you. Yet a
little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I
live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my
Father, and ye in me, and I in you."[1213] This was followed by the
assurance that Christ though unknown by the world would manifest Himself
to those who loved Him and kept His commandments.

Judas Thaddeus, otherwise known as Lebbeus,[1214] "not Iscariot," as the
recorder is careful to particularize, was puzzled over the untraditional
and un-Jewish thought of a Messiah who would be known but to the chosen
few and not to Israel at large; and he asked: "Lord, how is it that thou
wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?" Jesus explained
that His and the Father's companionship was attainable only by the
faithful. He further cheered the apostles by the promise that when the
Comforter, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father would send in the name of the
Son, would come to them, He would teach them further, and would bring to
their remembrance the teachings they had received from the Christ. The
distinct personality of each member of the Godhead, Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost, is here again plainly shown.[1215] Comforting the yet
troubled disciples, Jesus said: "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give
unto you"; and that they might realize that this meant more than the
conventional salutation of the times, for "Peace be with you" was an
every-day greeting among the Jews, the Lord affirmed that He gave that
invocation in a higher sense, and "not as the world giveth." Again
bidding them put aside their grief and be not afraid, Jesus added: "Ye
have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If
ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for
my Father is greater than I." The Lord made clear to His servant