Without are dogs.

Now comes. description of those excluded. Dogs were an unclean animal under the Jewish law, and this probably represents the wicked, depraved and vile.

Sorcerers.

Deceivers, whether priestly tricksters, workers of false miracles, or charlatans and mountebanks.

Idolaters.

Not the worshipers of heathen gods, so much as those who have the Creator and his Son offered to them and turn to worship the creature; to worship angels, saints, the Virgin, or to worship the false gods found in many Protestant temples; mammon, the prince of this world, etc., etc.

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