“And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.”
When Jesus stepped ashore, he was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but had lived in the tombs — the naked, tomb-dwelling, demon-possessed man is the most extreme expression of human desolation in the Gospels. For a long time communicates the duration of his suffering — this is not a recent condition but an established identity. The three negatives (no clothes, no house, no community) communicate complete social and human dissolution.
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