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Nicolaism (also called Nicholaism, Nicolaitism, Nicolationism or Nicolaitanism) was an early Christian sect mentioned twice in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament. The adherents were called Nicolaitans, Nicolaitanes, or Nicolaites. They were considered heretical by the mainstream early Christian Church.
According to the Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis (ch. 26), and Theodoret's Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium, the Borborites or Borborians (Greek: Βορβοριανοί; in Egypt, Phibionites; in other countries, Koddians, Barbelites, Secundians, Socratites, Zacchaeans, Stratiotics) were a Christian Gnostic sect, said to be descended from the Nicolaitans.
Here in Kolby Church, Denmark, 1550. The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible ). Written in Koine Greek, its title is derived from the first word of the text: apokalypsis, meaning 'unveiling' or 'revelation'.
Tertullian was an advocate of discipline and an austere code of practise, and like many of the African fathers, one of the leading representatives of the rigorist element in the early Church. His writings on public amusements, the veiling of virgins, the conduct of women, and the like, reflect these opinions.
A major heatwave causes the Sun to burn with intense heat and to scorch people with fire. ( Revelation 16:8–9) The kingdom of the beast is plunged into darkness. ( Revelation 16:11) The Euphrates River dries up to facilitate the crossing of the armies from the east, on their way to Israel for the battle of Armageddon.
First page of a 1566 edition of the Aristotolic Ethics in Greek and Latin. The Nicomachean Ethics ( / ˌnaɪkɒməˈkiən, ˌnɪ -/; Ancient Greek: Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia) is Aristotle 's best-known works on ethics: the science of the good for human life, that which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim ...
The idea that 'Nicolaitan' refers to clergy dominating the laity is the same or similar to a Christodelphian concept found in Eureka written a few hundred years ago. The line of argument in these is a bit better than in some of the later groups that espoused it. Some of the Plymouth Brethren taught this as well.
Some gnostics (e.g. Ophites and Nicolaitans) taught that since the matter was opposed to the spirit, the body was unimportant. Similar views were found among some anabaptists in the sixteenth century as a consequence of justification by faith and later among some sects in seventeenth-century England. Decree on Justification, Chapter XV Council ...