Galatians 5:20

20. witchcraft—sorcery; prevalent in Asia (Acts 19:19; compare Galatians 5:21).

hatred—Greek, "hatreds."

variance—Greek, "strife"; singular in the oldest manuscripts.

emulations—in the oldest manuscripts, singular—"emulation," or rather, "jealousy"; for the sake of one's own advantage. "Envyings" (Galatians 5:21) are even without advantage to the person himself [BENGEL].

wrath—Greek, plural, "passionate outbreaks" [ALFORD].

strife—rather as Greek, "factions," "cabals"; derived from a Greek root, meaning "a worker for hire": hence, unworthy means for compassing ends, factious practices.

seditions—"dissensions," as to secular matters.

heresies—as to sacred things (see on Galatians 5:21- :). Self-constituted parties; from a Greek root, to choose. A schism is a more recent split in a congregation from a difference of opinion. Heresy is a schism become inveterate [AUGUSTINE, Con. Crescon. Don., 2,7].