20. witchcraft--sorcery; prevalent in Asia (Ac 19:19; compare Re 21).
      hatred--Greek, "hatreds."
      variance--Greek, "strife"; singular in the oldest manuscripts.
      emulations--in the oldest manuscripts, singular--"emulation," or rather, "jealousy"; for the sake of one's own advantage. "Envyings" (Ga 5:21) are even without advantage to the person himself [BENGEL].
      wrath--Greek, plural, "passionate outbreaks" [ALFORD].
      strife--rather as Greek, "factions," "cabals"; derived from a Greek root, meaning "a worker for hire": hence, unworthy means for compassing ends, factious practices.
      seditions--"dissensions," as to secular matters.
      heresies--as to sacred things (see on 1Co 11:19). Self-constituted parties; from a Greek root, to choose. A schism is a more recent split in a congregation from a difference of opinion. Heresy is a schism become inveterate [AUGUSTINE, Con. Crescon. Don., 2,7].

JFB.