Acts 20:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Of your own selves shall men arise; whilst Paul yet lived, and was only departed from that place. Several seducers may be reckoned up, as Nicolas the deacon, (from whom it is thought the sect of the Nicolaitanes came, Revelation 2:6), Hymenaeus, Alexander, Phygellus, and Hermogenes, 1 Timothy 1:20 2 Timothy 1:15. Speaking perverse things; perverting Scripture; establishing their false doctrines by Scripture, which they wrest to their purpose. To draw away disciples; as members are forcibly plucked from their body; which speak the cruelty and violence of these heretics, and the tenderness of the church towards her members, being loth to part from them. After them; thus false teachers gain indeed disciples to themselves, but not unto the Lord.