Anf-03 v.xi.i Pg 34
See Acts vi. 1–6. [But the identity is doubtful.]
He affirms that Darkness was seized with a concupiscence—and, indeed, a foul and obscene one—after Light: out of this permixture it is a shame to say what fetid and unclean (combinations arose). The rest (of his tenets), too, are obscene. For he tells of certain Æons, sons of turpitude, and of conjunctions of execrable and obscene embraces and permixtures,8352 8352 So Oehler gives in his text. But his suggestion, given in a note, is perhaps preferable: “and of execrable embraces and permixtures, and obscene conjunctions.”
and certain yet baser outcomes of these. He teaches that there were born, moreover, dæmons, and gods, and spirits seven, and other things sufficiently sacrilegious. alike and foul, which we blush to recount, and at once pass them by. Enough it is for us that this heresy of the Nicolaitans has been condemned by the Apocalypse of the Lord with the weightiest authority attaching to a sentence, in saying “Because this thou holdest, thou hatest the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which I too hate.”8353 8353
Npnf-201 iii.vii.ii Pg 10
Npnf-201 iii.vii.ii Pg 5
Npnf-201 iii.vii.ii Pg 7
Npnf-201 iii.viii.xxix Pg 4
Npnf-201 iii.xi.xliii Pg 31
Npnf-201 v.i Pg 376
Anf-02 iv.ii.i.xii Pg 3.1
Npnf-201 iii.viii.xxxi Pg 10
Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.xiii Pg 4.2
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.vii Pg 12.1
Anf-01 ix.viii.xx Pg 3
Num. xxvii. 23.
The countenance of Joshua was also glorified by the imposition of the hands of Moses, but not to the same degree [as that of Moses]. Inasmuch, then, as he had obtained a certain degree of grace, [the Lord] said, “And thou shall confer upon him of thy glory.”4831 4831
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 13
VERSE (3) - :2; 6:6; 8:15-17; 9:17; 14:23 Nu 27:23 1Ti 4:14; 5:22 2Ti 1:6; 2:2
