VERS. V.
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And Nicholas a Proselyte of Antioch.
I. WHereas this Nicholas only is termed a Proselyte, it makes it evident that all the rest excepting himself, were Jews, however they might be known by Greek names. Nor yet would I call them Hellenists, but Hebrews rather, who understood Greek indeed (and for that reason the care of the Hellenists was comitted to them) but yet the Hebrew was their own Mother-Tongue. For it is hardly supposable that Ste∣phen when he pleaded his cause before the Sanhedrin and the whole multitude, would plead it in Greek though he understood it well.
II. It is so constant an opinion of the Antients that the most impure sect of the Ni∣colaitans derived their name and filthy doctrins from this Nicolas, x 1.1 that so much as to distrust the thing would look like contradicting antiquity. But if it were lawful in this matter freely to speak ones thoughts▪ I should conjecture (for the honour of our Ni∣colas) that the name might take its derivation from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Nocola, Let us eat together, those bruits animating one another to eat things offered to Idols. Like those in Isai. XXII. 13. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Let us eat flesh and drink wine.