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Originally Posted by Ohio
Since the word itself implies "ruling the people," that interpretation should more be in line with the rest of the Bible. Of course, some still point to some guy named Nicolas, and we don't know what his "deeds" were.
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That's right : we don't know.
So let's invent something and call it a fact. Let's break the Greek name down into components of Nike & Laity, or victory over laity, and bring in from "nowhere" in the name, clergy.
So who were the laity and who were the clergy? And which was the most wrong, or most hated by the Lord?
Given the 90% illiteracy rate back then, only 10% could have been clergy that was required to read to the 90% that couldn't read. So maybe the works of the Nicolaitans, that the Lord hated, was reading. Or maybe the Lord hated the literacy rate.
We fool ourselves into thinking we know what was going on back then.
And Witness Lee pretended very well that he knew. All to enhance his power trip. Witness Lee should know. He was Nike.