Nicolaitans
- plural of Nicolaitan.
Example Sentences
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They are not charged with such vile practises as prevailed at Pergamus and Thyatira, the doctrine of the Nicolaitans had gained no foothold among them, yet their works were not perfect.
From The Revelation Explained by Smith, F. G. (Frederick George)
Even so hast thou them that maintain the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
The Nicolaitans were a sect of corrupt professors of Christianity of whose doctrines and deeds little or nothing is certainly known.
From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David
The Nicolaitans are the Continentes above described, who placed religion in abstinence from marriage, abandoning their wives if they had any.
From Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John by Newton, Isaac, Sir
Epiphanius says, that the "Ophites sprung out of the Nicolaitans and Gnostics, who were so called from the serpent, which they worshiped."
