Bible Encyclopedia: Divination: Practised by Magicians

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The Fraud of the Foregoing Practices; their Connection with Heresy ...
... the villanous and incoherent art of magicians, may be ... It was persons who practised
wicked arts, and assumed ... the art of medicine, (2) religion, (3) divination. ...
/.../hippolytus/the refutation of all heresies/chapter xlii the fraud of the.htm

The Unclean Spirits.
... damsel possessed with a spirit of divination, met us ... Nebuchadnezzar "commanded to
call the magicians, and the ... These things were practised to some extent in Judah ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the unclean spirits.htm

The Refutation of All Heresies
... System of the Magicians; Incantations of ... Chapter XXXV.--The Divination by a Cauldron;
Illusion of ... Derived His System from Pythagoras; Practised Incantations. ...
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The Book of Jubilees
... tenth; Jacob's wrath at the deception practised on him ... in order to eliminate the
idea of divination): "Know ye ... to naught the devices of the Egyptian magicians. ...
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The City of God. Index of Subjects.
... Divination, [531]142 ... etc.; the worshippers of, never received healthy precepts from,
"the impurity of the worship of, [718]24; obscenities practised in honor ...
/.../augustine/on christian doctrine in four books /the city of god index.htm

the Legendary History of Egypt
... be extracted thence by means of a surgical operation similar to that practised upon
a ... for his wife, the wise Horus for his son, two master-magicians"Thot the ...
/.../chapter iii -the legendary history of.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Genesis 41:8
And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them to Pharaoh.
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Daniel 4:7
Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me the interpretation thereof.
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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

Divination: Effected Through: Enchantments