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Sorcerer
From the Latin sortiarius, one who casts lots, or one who tells the lot of others. (See Divination.)
In Dan 2:2 it is the rendering of the Hebrew mekhashphim, i.e., mutterers, men who professed to have power with evil spirits. The practice of sorcery exposed to severest punishment (Mal 3:5; Rev 21:8; Rev 22:15).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
