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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 province...
- 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...
- Stratiotici Cainites Carpocratianism Cerdonians Mandaeism Kentaeans Na****enes Nicolaitans Ophites Perates Priscillianism Quqites Seleucians Sethianism Simonians...
- 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...
- Simonians (Epiph. Haer. xxi. 2) of those whom he describes under the head of Nicolaitans (Epiph. Haer. xxv. 3, 4) and of the Ophites (Epiph. Haer. ****vii. 4,...
- 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...
- such criticism can be found in Revelation 2:6–15, which criticizes the Nicolaitans, possibly an early Gnostic sect. The term "antinomianism" was coined...
- accusations of his stepmother, Eupraxia, that Henry IV was a member of a Nicolaitan sect, parti****ted in orgies, and had offered Eupraxia to Conrad, stating...
- body. According to these later chroniclers, Henry became involved in a Nicolaitan sect, and hosted the sect's orgies and obscene rituals in his palaces...