John 16:13

13. For εἰς τ. ἀλήθειαν π. אDL have ἐν τῇ�. π., perhaps because ἐν after ὁδηγεῖν is more common in LXX. ἀκούσει for ἂν�, with BDEHT: אL have ἀκούει.

13. ὁδηγήσει. He will be your guide into this new country. Christ is the Way and the Truth. The Spirit of Truth (see on John 14:17) leads men into the Way and thus into all the Truth. Comp. ὑμεῖς δ' ἐμοῦ�. Plato Apol.17. But He does not compel, does not carry: they may refuse to follow; and if they follow they must exert themselves. Contrast Matthew 15:14; Acts 8:31.

ἀφ' ἑαυτοῦ. see on John 5:19; John 15:4. The Spirit, like the Son, cannot speak what proceeds from Himself as distinct from what proceeds from the Father, the Source of all Divine energy. This is the security for infallibility: Satan, who speaks out of his own resources, is consequently a liar (John 8:44).

Note the threefold ἀναγγελεῖ ὑμῖν. He shall declare to you the things that are coming (comp. ὁ ἐρχόμενος): among τὰ ἐρχόμενα we may place the constitution of the Church and all those truths which Christian experience would teach.