It was the promise of Jesus that, after His departure, the Spirit
would be given to His disciples, to teach them all things, and bring to their
remembrance all that He had said to them (Jn 14:26). It was not a new
revelation they were to receive, but illumination and guidance of their minds
into the meaning of what they had received already (Jn 16:13–15). This promise
of the Spirit was fulfilled at Pentecost (Acts 2). Only a few personal
manifestations of Jesus (Acts 7:55, 56; 22:17, 18; 23:11) are recorded after
that event—the two chief being the appearance to Paul on the way to Damascus (1
Cor 15:8; cf Acts 9:3 ff, etc), and the appearance in vision to John in Patmos
(Rev 1:10 ff). The rest was internal revelation (cf Gal 1:12, 16; Eph 1:17;
3:3–5). (James Orr, “Jesus Christ,” in The International Standard
Bible Encyclopaedia, ed. James Orr et al., 5 vols. [Chicago: The Howard-Severance
Company, 1915], 3:1667)
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