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This man [a]continually lived among the tombs, and no one could subdue him any more, even with a chain;

For he had been bound often with shackles for the feet and [b]handcuffs, but the handcuffs of [light] chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he rubbed and ground together and broke in pieces; and no one had strength enough to restrain or tame him.

Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always [c]shrieking and screaming and [d]beating and bruising and [e]cutting himself with stones.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 5:3 Kenneth Wuest, Word Studies.
  2. Mark 5:4 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  3. Mark 5:5 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  4. Mark 5:5 James Moulton and George Milligan, The Vocabulary.
  5. Mark 5:5 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.

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