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To: Natural Law

You seem to be a very confused person.

Nicolaitano is very much a Greek word. In simplest terms it means Rule the people. It has also more complex connotations, depending on context.

There is no disagreement between honest people on its meaning in the context of Revelations. The deceivers of the RC church have a strong need to cover up the true meaning because it reveals Christ’s condemnation of their every day practices.

I won’t ask you to believe anything; I see the depths of denial that I would encounter in doing so, and will refrain from any attempt to have a sane sensible intelligent conversation.


223 posted on 03/23/2012 11:08:19 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: editor-surveyor; Natural Law
Nicolaitano is very much a Greek word

Are you referring to Nicolaitan(s) or Nicolaitanes?

224 posted on 03/23/2012 11:22:06 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: editor-surveyor
"There is no disagreement between honest people on its meaning in the context of Revelations."

I sincerely hope you are not accusing me of being dishonest or less than reasonably educated for rejecting your interpretation of what or who the Nicoliatians mentioned in Revelations were. The Nicolatians were a Christian heresy.

The term “Nicolatians” was never recorded before it appeared in the Book of Revelations. The earliest writings, other than the introduction of the term in Revelation, was by the Early Church Fathers. St. Epiphanius of Salamis wrote that the term refers to a sect founded by Nicholas, one of the first seven Deacons of the Church. Hippolytus concurred. St. Irenaeus wrote that the characteristic tenets of Nicolatians were the lawfulness of promiscuous sexual intercourse with women, and of eating things offered to idols. St. Epiphanius of Salamis. St. Eusebius wrote substantially the same thing. Tertullian spoke of the Nicolaitanes as a branch of the Gnostic family that was already extinct.

The 17th century Lutheran Johann Lorenz von Mosheim wrote: "the questions about the Nicolaitanes have difficulties which cannot be solved." Johann Augustus Neander, the father of Protestant historiography, doubted whether the actual existence of such a sect can be proved, and thought that the name was symbolical and mystical like much of the Book of Revelation, to denote corrupters or seducers of the people, like Balaam. He proposed that the term relates not to a specific group, but to a type of person who enticed Christians to participate in the sacrificial feasts and orgies of the pagans, much just as the Old Testament Jews were led astray by the Moabites,

228 posted on 03/23/2012 1:31:13 PM PDT by Natural Law (If you love the Catholic Church raise your hands, if not raise your standards.)
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