“(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)”
For Jesus had commanded the impure spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was chained hand and foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains and had been driven by the demon into solitary places — the flashback to the history of failed human restraint communicates the complete inability of human force to address the supernatural bondage. Many times, chains, guard — all ineffective. The demon drove him into solitary places: the possession has been the agent of his isolation.
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