Revelation 2:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes; so, saith he, thou sufferest in thy communion filthy persons, who maintain fornication lawful, and the lawfulness of eating meat offered to idols, which exactly corresponds with Balaam's doctrine or counsel given to Balak, in order to his weakening the Israelites by separating them from God. His counsel took place, to the destruction of twenty-four thousand Israelites. Which thing I hate; I am the same God still, and hate such doctrines, as much as ever I did in the time of Balak.