Leviticus 20:5-6

20:5

set <07760> [I will.]

clan <04940> [against his.]

prostitution .... prostitution <02181> [whoring.]

20:6

spirits <0178> [familiar.]

prostitution <02181> [go.]

cut ... off <03772> [cut him.]

In the days of Moses, superstition was almost the {sensus communis} of the human race, which then made severe punishment necessary: by means of the Christian dispensation such errors are now exploded, the cultivation of philosophy and natural history having harmonised and contributed their feebler share of light, so that we no longer have to deplore mischiefs occasioned by the silly curiosity attempting to unfold future events.