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2 Kings 23:24
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
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Ezekiel 21:21
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
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In the Next Place, Speaking of those who Employ the Arts of Magic ...
... again, mixing up together matters which belong to magic and sorcery, and referring
them ... or spells for averting evil, or (the making of) images, or resemblances ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xxxix in the next.htm

Celsus, Indeed, Evinced a Slight Knowledge of Scripture when He ...
... For wickedness and sorcery would not have led a whole nation to rise not only above
idols and images erected by men, but also above all created things, and to ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter li celsus indeed evinced.htm

The Heresy of Carpocrates; Wicked Doctrines Concerning Jesus ...
... and (of resorting to) the rest of the tricks (of sorcery), alleging that ... And they
make counterfeit images of Christ, alleging that these were in existence at ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter xx the heresy of carpocrates.htm

Deified and Stoned
... by the prince of the devils'; an average Greek's or Roman's was 'sorcery'; these
simple ... about the degradation of the idea of divinity by taking images as its ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/deified and stoned.htm

The Foundations of Good Citizenship.
... image was, it seems, directed not against the public idols but against the private
images. ... to what is not true; and (4) in the practice of sorcery or witchcraft ...
/.../kent/the making of a nation/study x the foundations of.htm

The Unclean Spirits.
... divination; he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in ... By
sorcery, enchantment, &c., they performed wonders, or miracles, either real or ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the unclean spirits.htm

Exhortation to Abandon the Impious Mysteries of Idolatry for the ...
... of poetry corrupting human life, possessed by a spirit of artful sorcery for purposes ...
blocks of wood and stone,"that is, statues and images,"subjecting to ...
/.../clement/exhortation to the heathen/chapter i exhortation to abandon the.htm

The Apology of Aristides the Philosopher. Translated from the ...
... reasoning, how they have gone astray after dead idols and lifeless images. ... transgressed
the law in killing one another, and practising sorcery, and committing ...
/.../kay/the apology of aristides the philosopher/the apology of aristides the.htm

Further, the Martyrdom of Barsamya, the Bishop of the Blessed City ...
... eyes, and ye refuse to hear the word of God; and graven images that are of ... the people
of the Christians are persons who eschew murder, and sorcery, and adultery ...
/.../unknown/the decretals/further the martyrdom of barsamya.htm

The victory of the God-Beloved Emperors.
... 3. But Maxentius, putting confidence rather in the arts of sorcery than in the devotion
of ... there, citizens of the same city came to me with the images of the ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/chapter ix the victory of the.htm

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