Bonds
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [1]
Psalm 116:16 (c) These bonds are a description of the habits, customs, and traditions that bind the Christian before the truth of GOD sets him free to serve in GOD's way. The same picture is seen in the case of Lazarus. The grave clothes of death held him as the old habits and ways of people hold them. Christ sets free.
Jeremiah 5:5 (b) The bonds in this passage are the legitimate and rightful laws of GOD in His path, but the leaders had thrown away these restraining influences of the work of the Lord.
Luke 13:16 (b) The sickness which this woman suffered is described as a bond because it hindered her from living a normal life.
Acts 8:23 (b) This man, because of avarice and desire to buy spiritual power, was said to be bound by the bond of iniquity - an unholy desire.
Colossians 3:14 (b) Love is described as a bond which holds us in the right relationship to GOD and to others and makes us what we should be.
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary [2]
were of two kinds, public and private; the former were employed to secure a prisoner in the public jail, after confession or conviction; the latter, when he was delivered to a magistrate, or even to private persons, to be kept at their houses till he should be tried. The Apostle Paul was subjected to private bonds by Felix, the Roman governor, who "commanded a centurion to keep him, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister, or come unto him,"
Acts 24:23 . And after he was carried prisoner to Rome, he "dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him," Acts 28:30 .
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament [3]
See Prison, Chain.
