Mk 5:3c ... nobody was able to bind him.

The third phrase has these 4 narrator words ... oudeis edunato auton desai (nobody was able him to bind).

The 4 words are top down tangent from the "nobody" down to the demoniac (him). This hypothetical diagram uses the verb "desai" (to bind) to depict four white triangles holding "nobody" and the demoniac. According to Dennis MacDonald, the word "nobody" (oo-dice') was an ancient literary pun long before the gospel was written because it refers to the pseudonym Odysseus gave himself when the cyclopes Polyphemus asked his name in the The Odyssey. In the gospel, the sign for "nobody" is a visual pun, for any anonymous man. Maybe the demoniac might be bound with a chain containing four links but "no one" was brave enough to try. This very chain will be used in the next verse in a flashback that tells of times when the demoniac was chained by people stronger than him.

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