<p>2:15- see on Lk. 11:22.</p><p><i>Having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it</i>- S.w. Heb. 6:6 about the &quot;open shame&quot; of the crucified Christ. One reason for the cross was to publicly declare that all the laws which we break, our sins, are once and for all publicly declared in all their shame- and rendered powerless, lead away in Christ's triumph (2 Cor. 2:14). Disarmed NIV- an allusion to 1 Sam. 17:51.</p><p>The binding of the strong man in the parable was done by the death of Christ. One of the spoils we have taken from his house is the fact we don't need to keep the Mosaic Law (Mt. 12:29 = Col. 2:15).</p>