Can anyone help me in determining what the "deeds of the Nicolaitanes" was/is all about?

(Rev 2:6 KJV) "But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate."

Thanks

-- Anonymous, February 15, 2000

Answers

Aren't those the guys on the Disney Channel??

-- Anonymous, February 15, 2000

Oops! My bad!

-- Anonymous, February 16, 2000

Mark -

There are several explainations of that, based on history and on grammatical clues. Unfortunately, I don't have the documentation here with me at work.

-- Anonymous, February 15, 2000

Mark,

We don't specifically know who they were. There is speculation. The name is formed from combining "nikon" - to conquer, and "laos" - the people. Martin Kiddle is probably right in his views about the Nicolaitans. They were probably followers of Nikolaos, the "proselyte from Antioch" (see Acts 6:1-6). This view is upheld in the patristic tradition.

Glenn Bourne would espouse that the term is a general reference for people who were enemies of the faith, perhaps as compromisers or abusers of the Christian freedom. (Tower of Truth, pg. 21)

-- Anonymous, February 15, 2000

That's Nickelodeon :^

-- Anonymous, February 15, 2000

Finally found it!

NICOLAITANS (Nihk oh lay' ituhns) Heretical group in the early church who taught immorality and idolatry. They are condemned in Revelation 2:6, 15 for their practices in Ephesus and Pergamon. Thyatira apparently had resisted the false prophecy they preached (Rev. 2:20- 25). The Nicolaitans have been linked to the type of heresy taught by Balaam (Num. 25:1-2; 2 Pet. 2:15), especially the pagan feasts and orgies that they apparently propagated in the first-century church.

-- Anonymous, February 18, 2000