Bible Dictionary · C
Consolation of Israel
A name for the Messiah in common use among the Jews, probably suggested by Isa 12:1; Isa 49:13. The Greek word thus rendered (Luke 2:25, paraklesis) is kindred to that translated “Comforter” in John 14:16, etc., parakletos.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
