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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Nicolaitanes
     The church at Ephesus (Rev. 2:6) is commended for hating the
     "deeds" of the Nicolaitanes, and the church of Pergamos is
     blamed for having them who hold their "doctrines" (15). They
     were seemingly a class of professing Christians, who sought to
     introduce into the church a false freedom or licentiousness,


     thus abusing Paul's doctrine of grace (comp. 2 Pet. 2:15, 16,
     19), and were probably identical with those who held the
     doctrine of Baalam (q.v.), Rev. 2:14.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Nicolaitanes, followers of Nicolas
  

















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