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NICOLAITANS - N>@ - (followers of Nicolas), a sect mentioned in kjv@Revelation:2:6 kjv@Revelation:2:15) whose deeds were strongly condemned. They may have been identical with those who held the doctrine of Balaam. They seem to have held that it was lawful to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication, in opposition to the decree of the Church rendered in kjv@Acts:15:20 kjv@Acts:15:29) The teachers of the Church branded them with a name which expressed their true character. The men who did and taught such things were followers of Balaam. ( kjv@2Peter:2:15; kjv@Jude:1:1:11) They, like the false prophet of Pethor, united brave words with evil deeds. In a time of persecution, when the eating or not eating of things sacrificed to idols was more than ever a crucial test of faithfulness, they persuaded men more than ever that was a thing indifferent. kjv@Revelation:2:13-14) This was bad enough, but there was a yet worse evil. Mingling themselves in the orgies of idolatrous feasts, they brought the impurities of those feasts into the meetings of the Christian Church. And all this was done, it must be remembered not simply as an indulgence of appetite: but as a part of a system, supported by a "doctrine," accompanied by the boast of a prophetic illumination, ( kjv@2Peter:2:1) It confirms the view which has been taken of their character to find that stress is laid in the first instance on the "deeds" of the Nicolaitans. To hate those deeds is a sign of life in a Church that otherwise is weak and faithless. kjv@Revelation:2:6) To tolerate them is well nigh to forfeit the glory of having been faithful under persecution. kjv@Revelation:2:14-15)

NICOLAS - N>@ - (victor of the people), kjv@Acts:6:5) a native of Antioch and a proselyte to the Jewish faith. When the church was still confined to Jerusalem, he became a convert and being a man of honest report full of the Holy Ghost and of wisdom, he was chosen by the whole multitude of the disciples to be one of the first seven deacons, and was ordained by the apostles. There is no reason except the simplicity of name for identifying Nicolas with the sect of Nicolaitans which our Lord denounces, for the traditions on the subject are of no value.

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Nicolaitanes @ The church at Ephesus kjv@Revelation:2:6) is commended for hating the "deeds" of the Nicolaitanes, and the church of Pergamos is blamed for having them who hold their "doctrines"

(15). They were seemingly a class of professing Christians, who sought to introduce into the church a false freedom or licentiousness, thus abusing Paul's doctrine of grace (comp. kjv@2Peter:2:15-16, 19), and were probably identical with those who held the doctrine of Baalam (q.v.), kjv@Revelation:2:14.

Nicolas @ the victory of the people, a proselyte of Antioch, one of the seven deacons kjv@Acts:6:5).

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NICOLAITANES @
- General scriptures concerning kjv@Revelation:2:6 kjv@Revelation:2:15

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- A proselyte of Antioch, and servant (Greek: diakonos) of the congregation at Jerusalem kjv@Acts:6:5-6

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kjv@STRING:Nicolas <HITCHCOCK>@ same as Nicodemus - HITCHCOCK-N

kjv@STRING:Nicolaitanes <HITCHCOCK>@ followers of Nicolas - HITCHCOCK-N

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G3531 <STRGRK>@ Νικολαΐ́της Nikolaitēs nik-ol-ah-ee'-tace From G3532; a Nicolaite that is adherent of Nicolaus: - Nicolaitane.

G3532 <STRGRK>@ Νικόλαος Nikolaos nik-ol'-ah-os From G3534 and G2004; victorious over the people; Nicolaus a heretic: - Nicolaus.