No, what I chafe at is invented meanings with no basis in fact. That’s how we got in trouble with Rome in the first place. I’m not interested in replacing one error with another error. When you are ready to make your case that Nicolaitan, in context, is a reference to clergy lording it over the laity (or whatever other meaning you wish to show), just ping me. I have in other posts vigorously opposed and rejected the institution of a priestly class for the New Covenant. Just not on the basis of that one word. It doesn’t work.
Peace,
SR
That is just my point.
Any other meaning than the plain meaning is what is invented.
Why do you scoff at the plain meaning of the word?
It is supported by one of Yeshua’s principle positions WRT his assembly: Total Equality. He hated uppityness.
He totally denounced every facit of Phariseeism, both in oration, and through his miracles, each of which demolished one of their Takanot.
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