Nicolaitanes: The church at Ephesus
(Revelation 2:6) is commended for hating the "deeds" of
the Nicolaitanes, and the church of Pergamos is blamed for having
them who hold their "doctrines"
(Revelation 2:15). They were seemingly a
class of professing Christians, who sought to introduce into the
church a false freedom or licentiousness, thus abusing Paul's doctrine
of grace (comp.)
(2 Peter 2:15,16,19) and were probably identical with
those who held the doctrine of Baalam (q.v.),
(Revelation 2:14)
