Gálatas 5:20

20. Wicked supernaturalisms are two.

Idolatry Worship of fictitious deities.

Witchcraft Or sorcery, the use of spells, charms, herbs, and manipulations, to produce preternatural effects. These were based partly in falsehood, partly in preternatural power over the nervous system, and partly in demoniac agency. Their whole was adverse to God and religion. Modern spiritualism is unquestionably a development of the same thing. Where experiments are made for scientific purposes, to bring out and publish to the world the truth in the case, a proper thing is done; but the truly devilish indulgence in these secret workings results in all the base consequences for which both the Old Testament and the New condemns them.

“It is a striking coincidence, if nothing more, that sorceries were condemned by a very stringent canon of the Council of Ancyra, the capital of Galatia, about A.D. 314.” Lightfoot.

Now follow nine vices of the malign nature.

Hatred The general opposite of love, and so generally including all the rest of the nine. These follow in a degree of climax ending in murder.

Variance Predisposition to dissent, even without self-interest.

Emulations Strife for selfish ascendency.

Wrath Selfish strife carried to an angry pitch.

Strife Cliques and cabals angrily maintained.

Seditions Rather, strife developed into distinct and hostile parties, becoming permanent in heresies, which are not doctrinal errors, but separations into hostile organizations.