“Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.”
For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him — the repeated unsuccessful restraint attempts communicate the man's superhuman strength under demonic influence. Tore the chains apart and broke the irons — these are not metaphorical descriptions but the physical reality of what the possession enables. No one was strong enough to subdue him: the community's collective human strength is insufficient. The stage is set for the demonstration that Jesus' authority — which already silenced storms and cast out demons with a word — is more than sufficient for what no human strength can accomplish.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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