Marco 5:4

4 poiché spesso era stato legato con ceppi e catene; e le catene erano state da lui rotte, ed i ceppi spezzati, e niuno avea forza da domarlo.

Marco 5:4 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 5:4

Because that he had been often bound with fetters and
chains
Trial had been made several times, to no purpose; his arms had been bound with chains, and his feet with fetters, which was very proper to prevent doing hurt to himself, and injury to others:

and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters
broken in pieces;
as if they had been twine threads; such was his strength, through the force of madness, and the possession of Satan, and his diabolical influence:

neither could any man tame him;
by any methods whatever; even such who undertook the cure of madness, or to exorcise those that were possessed: this man was so furious and outrageous, that he was not to be managed any way, either by art or force.

Marco 5:4 In-Context

2 E come Gesù fu smontato dalla barca, subito gli venne incontro dai sepolcri un uomo posseduto da uno spirito immondo,

3 il quale nei sepolcri avea la sua dimora; e neppure con una catena poteva più alcuno tenerlo legato;

4 poiché spesso era stato legato con ceppi e catene; e le catene erano state da lui rotte, ed i ceppi spezzati, e niuno avea forza da domarlo.

5 E di continuo, notte e giorno, fra i sepolcri e su per i monti, andava urlando e percotendosi con delle pietre.

6 Or quand’ebbe veduto Gesù da lontano, corse e gli si prostrò dinanzi;