Bound to our passions or free?translated

Another didactic passage (h' 27-39) with social content is presented to us by Evangelist Luke this Sunday. A suffering man, from Gadara, a pagan city on the opposite bank of the Galilee, in the area of the Decapolis of Palestine, has literally been caught in the nets of the wicked "for ages"; since then "he did not wear clothes and in where he did not live, but in his memory." (Luke, n' 27)

By Sophia Bekri (philologist-theologian)

Man, as is well known, was created to be the image of God and to walk towards His likeness. If he does not pay attention to His course and "goes astray" - he sins -, then all kinds of demons are waiting to come and settle in him. And when the demon "grabs" the person, leads him and carries him, takes him wherever he wants, "in a desert country", far from people and from society. They find him, still, naked and homeless, so that they need to tie him "chain and throw", handcuffs, so that he does not attack them.

Despite this, the "strong" demon also breaks the chains of the possessed, who spreads fear and terror around him.

Terrible, indeed, passion is demon possession. When the...