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- noun A member of an early Christian
sect , said to participate in certainpagan ceremonies.
Etymologies
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Examples
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God that inhabited it, and not a human soul, but affirms that unlawful unions are a good thing, and places the highest happiness [934] in pleasure, as does the man who is falsely called a Nicolaitan, this person can neither be a lover of God, nor a lover of Christ, but is a corrupter of his own flesh, and therefore void of the Holy Spirit, and
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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We canhate the words and deeds of the hypocrites and the "Nicolaitan" who seek and fight for personal power, wealth and domain at the expense of everyone else and the environment.
Dalai Lama: "I Love President Bush... but... Lack(s) Understanding of Reality" 2008
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We can can the words and deeds of the hypocrites and the "Nicolaitan" who seek and fight for personal power, wealth and domain at the expense of everyone else and the environment.
Dalai Lama: "I Love President Bush... but... Lack(s) Understanding of Reality" 2008
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For in the same chapter, art. 35, this is his Nicolaitan doctrine: -- 'A pluralitate uxorum natura humana non abhorret, imo fortasse neque ab earum communitate. '
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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The Nicolaitan heresy (from niko - conquer and laos the people) involved anything that suggested that an ordinary believer was not qualified to pray directly to God.
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