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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

kon-so-la'-shun (paraklesis): "Consolation of Israel" (Lu 2:25), refers to the fulfillment of the promises in Isa 40:1 ff. See COMFORT. "Son of consolation" (Ac 4:36 the King James Version and the American Revised Version, margin).

See BARNABAS.