Often bound (πολλακις δεδεσθα). Perfect passive infinitive, state of completion. With fetters (πεδαις, from πεζα, foot, instep) an…

Bound with fetters and chains.—These were not necessarily of metal. The two processes of snapping chains by one convulsive movemen…

And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there m…

Theophylact of Ohrid: Those who were in the boat inquired among themselves, What manner of man is this? and now it…

The possessed man lived in the tombs. Often in Palestine people were buried in natural caves or in tombs cut out of the limestone rock. It was a na…

Some openly willful sinners are like this madman. The commands of the law are like chains and fetters, to restrain sinners from their wicked course…