Ex. 22:18
(ESV) You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
(KJV) Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live

WCF 19.4
IV. To them also, as a body politic, he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the State of that people; not obliging any other now, further than the general equity thereof may require.

Exod. 21:1-23:19; Gen. 49:10 with I Peter 2:13-14; I Cor. 9:8-10

Not a levitical case law but it is in the proof texts of the portion of the WCF in question.

What would be the general equity of this verse? What requirements are we obliged to? I think the verse could be summed up to kill witches. Underlying principles? Punish witches? Witchcraft is bad?

Before we could seek to apply the general equity of this verse we first have to agree on what it is...Thoughts?

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Chris Rhoades -33
Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church (PCA) Nashville, TN-Under Care

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