Nicolataine band

[Happy_LDS]

As I was studying Doctrine and Covenants I came across this term:

Doctrine and Covenants 117:11 says:

"Let my servant Newel K. Whitney be ashamed of the Nicolataine band and of all their secret abominations, and of all his littleness of soul before me, saith the Lord, and come up to the land of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and be a bishop unto my people, saith the Lord, not in name but in deed, saith the Lord"

Did you ever hear about it?

[Danite23]

If I am not mistaken the nicolataine band dates back Biblical times.  According to some scholars:

"They seem to have held that it was lawful to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication, in opposition to the decree of the Church rendered in Acts 15:20, 29.  … In a time of persecution, when the eating or not eating of things sacrificed to idols was more than ever a crucial test of faithfulness, they persuaded men more than ever that it was a thing indifferent.  Rev.  2:13, 14.  This was bad enough, but there was a yet worse evil.  Mingling themselves in the orgies of idolatrous feasts, they brought the impurities of those feasts into the meetings of the Christian Church.  And all this was done, it must be remembered, not simply as an indulgence of appetite, but as a part of a system, supported by a 'doctrine,' accompanied by the boast of a prophetic illumination. " (Smith, Dictionary of the Bible, p.  447. )