Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 2:6

6 But this thou hast , that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans , which I also hate .

Thou hast yet thus much to commend thee.

Thou hatest the Deeds of those who teach the Lawfulness of a common Use of Wives, and eat things offered to Idols; for these, they say, were the Tenets of the Nicolaitans, so called from one Nicholas; but whether he were one of the first Deacons named, Acts 6.5. (who, they say, to avoid the Imputation of Jealousie, brought forth his Wife, being a beautiful Woman, and prostituted her) or from some other of that Name, I cannot determine.

God, as a lover of his own Order, and of Human Society, hateth such Doctrines and Practices, as are contrary to the Rule of his Word, and tend to the Confusion of Human Societies.

Marginal references: Ver. 1[illegible: 1 letter] ▪