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Nicolas Scripture - Acts 6:5

And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:...

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Nicolas in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

nik-o-la'-us (English Versions of the Bible), nik'-o-las (Nikolaos): One of "the seven" chosen to have the oversight of "the daily ministration" to the poor of the church in Jerusalem (Acts 6:5). He is called "a proselyte of Antioch"; the other 6 were therefore probably Jews by birth. This is the first recorded case of the admission of a prose...

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Nicolas in Naves Topical Bible

-A proselyte of Antioch, and servant (Greek: diakonos) of the congregation at Jerusalem Ac 6:5,6...

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Nicolas in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(victor of the people), Ac 6:5 a native of Antioch and a proselyte to the Jewish faith. When the church was still confined to Jerusalem, he became a convert and being a man of honest report full of the Holy Ghost and of wisdom, he was chosen by the whole multitude of the disciples to be one of the first seven deacons, and was ordained by the a...

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Nicolas in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the victory of the people, a proselyte of Antioch, one of the seven deacons (Acts 6:5)....

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Nicolas in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Of the seven. Probably having no connection with the Nicolaitans, though Epiphanius (adv. Haer. i. 2, section 25) represents him as sinking into corrupt doctrine and practice. Clemens Alex. (Strom. iii. 4) says that Nicolas, when reproached by the apostles with jealousy, offered his wife to any to marry, but that Nicolas lived a pure life and ...

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Nicolas in Hitchcock's Bible Names

same as Nicodemus...

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