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Nicolaitan
Nicolaitan Ni`co*la"i*tan, n. [So called from Nicolas of Antioch, mentioned in Acts vi. 5.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of certain corrupt persons in the early church at Ephesus, who are censured in rev. ii. 6, 15.

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- or Nicolaitanism) was an early Christian sect mentioned twice in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament. The adherents were called Nicolaitans, Nicolaitanes...
- Borborites, a libertine Gnostic sect, said to be descended from the Nicolaitans The Persian schools, which appeared in the western Persian Sasanian provice...
- apostles and are not, and finding them to be liars; hating the deeds of the Nicolaitans; having ****vered and possessing patience. Admonished to "do the first...
- such criticism can be found in Revelation 2:6–15, which criticizes the Nicolaitans, possibly an early Gnostic sect. The term "antinomianism" was coined...
- attitude to the Mosaic Law (Romans 3:8) Some gnostics (e.g. Ophites and Nicolaitans) taught that since the matter was opposed to the spirit, the body was...
- See here [1]. A gnostic sect mentioned in the Panarion, Against the Nicolaitans, 2,1 They be identified as the Borborites. Another name for the Gnostics...
- related to Christian Gnosticism. Bardaisanites Basilideans Carpocratianism Nicolaitans Sethianism Simonians (sometimes considered Proto-Gnostic) Valentinianism...
- Stratiotics) were a Christian Gnostic sect, said to be descended from the Nicolaitans. It is difficult to know for sure the practices of the group, as both...
- called "Gnostici" (i. 100 f.). The first p****age is in the article on the Nicolaitans (i. 77 f.), but is apparently an anti****tory reference to their alleged...
- the church of Pergamum to repent from the doctrines of Balaam and the Nicolaitans. John addresses the church of Thyatira to repent from the teachings of...