“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”
Idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions — Paul continues the catalog with spiritual (idolatry, sorcery) and relational sins (hatred, strife, envy, wrath, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions), showing the flesh's outworking in both cosmic rebellion and social destruction.
Church Fathers on Galatians 5:20
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wrath, factions, divisions, heresies, envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I forewarn you even as I did forewarn you, that they which practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Answer me now, you that accusest your own flesh, and supposest that this is said of it as of an enemy and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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