8. “ But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate” --2:6. The claim that this designation of a sect or a party derived its name from Nicolas, of Acts 6:5, rests on assertion. There is no historical or factual evidence of it. It is more consistent with the code language of Revelation to regard the term Nicolaitanes as a symbolic expression, along with the use of the word Balaam. The two words actually are similar in meaning, one meant a “ victor of the people” and the other a “ devourer of the people.” These meanings of the two words significantly unite the two symbols as signs of the religious seductions of the Libertine party in the Ephesian church.