Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
No man could any more bind him, no, not with a chain (oude alusei oudeiv edunato auton dhsai). Instrumental case alusei, a handcuff (a privative and luw, to loosen). But this demoniac snapped a handcuff as if a string.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Mark 5:3:
Luke 8:27
Revelation 11:9
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