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Originally Posted by awareness
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.
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It sures seems like the assault on the whole clergy-laity system was unwarranted and self-serving. What hypocrisy is that to remove all pastors and give us Phillip Lee instead?
If we have to base our entire understanding of the "
works (v2.6) and the teachings (v2.15) of the Nicolaitans" on the word meaning alone, then I would suggest that
"lording it over the saints," as Peter warned us in vv5.1-3, is a far better explanation.
WN and WL taught their interpretation as definitive, but even the simple reading of the text in context does not fit their interpretation well. What a shame that the Recovery has based their entire ecclesiology upon the questionable interpretation of these two verses, only to replace it with a far more obnoxious one.