Bible Encyclopedia: Divination: Practised by False Prophets

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The Unclean Spirits.
... they are of God: because many false prophets are gone ... but in four hundred years they
had practised all the ... through the fire, or that useth divination, or an ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the unclean spirits.htm

The Ascension of Isaiah.
... of such wholesale cruelty practised on a ... was multiplied there; incantation, augury,
divination, fornication, adultery ... O king, that these are false prophets. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/deane/pseudepigrapha/the ascension of isaiah.htm

On Threefold Wisdom.
... invent these errors and delusions of false doctrine ... the case with all, whether prophets
or apostles ... to credible histories, have practised divination [2616] from ...
/.../origen/origen de principiis/chapter iii on threefold wisdom.htm

The Sibylline Oracles.
... may just as well be said of the proselyte baptism practised by the ... A paragraph
concerning false prophets who feign themselves Hebrews, Alexandre calls the last ...
//christianbookshelf.org/deane/pseudepigrapha/the sibylline oracles.htm

The Mission of Paul and Silas to Macedonia.
... by the plausible reasonings of false teachers; but in ... profligates, who extolled virtue,
and practised the most ... possessed with a spirit of divination, met us ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xvii the mission of.htm

In the Fifteenth Year of Tiberius Cæsar and under the Pontificate ...
... religions were considered equally false or equally ... personation of gods, oracles,
divination, dreams, astrology ... even the greatest philosophers practised, if not ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xi in the fifteenth.htm

Definitive Form of the Ideas of Jesus Respecting the Kingdom of ...
... There the worship of fire had been practised at various ... By the side of the false,
cold, and impossible ... A kind of exalted divination seems to have maintained it ...
/.../renan/the life of jesus/chapter xvii definitive form of.htm

The City of God. Index of Subjects.
... Divination, [531]142. ... the impurity of the worship of, [718]24; obscenities practised
in honor ... exhibitions, [721]27; the reason why they suffered false or real ...
/.../augustine/on christian doctrine in four books /the city of god index.htm

A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity: Or, an Exhortation to ...
... inferior to apostles and extra-ordinary prophets, and above ... as to make it a cloak
for false and dangerous ... wench that had a spirit of divination did acknowledge ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a holy life the beauty.htm

Against Jovinianus.
... To understand him we must be prophets. ... He circumcised Timothy, and shaved his own
head, practised going barefoot, let his hair grow long, and cut it at Cenchrea ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/against jovinianus.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Jeremiah 14:14
Then the LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke to them: they prophesy to you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their heart.
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Ezekiel 13:3,6
Thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
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Subtopics

Divination

Divination: A System of Fraud

Divination: All Who Practised It, Abominable

Divination: An Abominable Practice

Divination: Could not Injure the Lord's People

Divination: Effected Through: A Lucrative Employment

Divination: Effected Through: Books of, Numerous and Expensive

Divination: Effected Through: Connected With Idolatry

Divination: Effected Through: Cups

Divination: Effected Through: Dreams