Advocate
This entry incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernization.
Advocate - (Gr. parakletos), one who pleads another's cause, who helps another by defending or comforting him. It is a name given by Jesus Christ three times to the Holy Ghost (John 14:16; 15:26; 16:7, where the Greek word is rendered "Comforter," q.v.). It is applied to Christ in 1 John 2:1, where the same Greek word is rendered "Advocate," the rendering which it should have in all the places where it occurs. Tertullus "the orator" (Acts 24:1) was a Roman advocate whom the Jews employed to accuse Paul before Felix.
Common advocates include lawyers, activists, and public relations consultants.
In Scotland, U.K., "advocate" refers to those legal professionals with the automatic right to argue cases in the surpeme courts of Scotland (i.e. the House of Lords, Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary). These are similar to "barristers" in England.
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