Nicolaitans
group · 4 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
certain Nicolaitans · followers of Nicolaus · the Gaian heresy · those who assert themselves to follow Nicolaus · those who pursue his sect
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Nicolaitans1 mention
De Pudicitia (Latin)
For he was a heretical woman, who had undertaken to teach what she had learned from the Nicolaitans, and who was secretly introducing it into the Church, and was deservedly urged to penitence.
in the texts
Stromata
Sect claiming descent from Nicolaus, using his story to justify unrestrained fornication.
and accordingly, following both the deed and the saying simply and without examination, those who pursue his sect fornicate without restraint.
" And such too are those who assert themselves to follow Nicolaus, bringing forward a saying of the man, by perversion, that one must abuse the flesh.
Adversus Marcionem
A group named as 'champions of lust and luxury,' invoked to distinguish Tertullian's praise of holiness from libertine misreadings.
Let us see whether justly — not as though we meant to destroy the felicity of holiness, like certain Nicolaitans, champions of lust and luxury, but as men who have known holiness without the condemnation of marriage, and follow and prefer it — not as good to evil, but as better to good.
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
Heretical sect condemned in the Apocalypse for idolatrous eating and fornication, still surviving as the Gaian heresy.
It is called the Gaian heresy.
De Pudicitia
Heretical sect whose teachings Jezebel was accused of importing.
For he was a heretical woman, who had undertaken to teach what she had learned from the Nicolaitans, and who was secretly introducing it into the Church, and was deservedly urged to penitence.