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Excerpt from The Revelation of St. John the Divine: With Notes Critical and Practical
The character of these men is very plainly pointed out in the Apocalypse of John as teaching that it is a matter of indifference to practise adultery and to eat things sacrificed to idols. Where fore the Word has also spoken of them thus: This thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate. (also v. 10, 2; iv. 20, 3; iii. 11, 8; iv. 20, 11 iv. 17, 5 v. 30, 2; iv. 18, 6 ii. 31, 3, &c.) But Irenaeus himself may be reckoned a contemporary of St. John, being acquainted with his (john's) disciple Polycarp writing thus But Polycarp also was not only instructed by Apostles, and conversed with many who had seen Christ, but was also by Apostles in Asia appointed Bishop of the Church in Smyrna, whom I also saw in my early youth (irenaeus, Against Heresies, iii. 3.
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