23-09-2016, 10:02 AM
I was about to object that it would be unlikely to have one specific line from scripture referenced in a work which otherwise bears little traces of Abrahamic religion. Yet it appears that "through the eye of a needle" was already a metaphor for "the impossible" well before Jesus' time, and in a variety of places.
People were apparently very fond of the image of the largest animal they knew squeezing itself through a needle to express impossibility. In India and with the Persians, elephants were the needle-crawlers of choice. In other countries like Israel, it were camels. So Jesus used an expression that was common in his time: "a camel passing through the eye of a needle" means "impossible".
That said, I agree that the thing at the bottom looks like the eye of a needle, or at least any kind of eyelet. I'd be more inclined to think at the moment that perhaps some kind of sewing material was derived from the plant, or something else involved in the production of fabrics.
I'm still puzzled by the three bumps. Note that they aren't even lined out - they are just bunches of hairs or spikes or... ??
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People were apparently very fond of the image of the largest animal they knew squeezing itself through a needle to express impossibility. In India and with the Persians, elephants were the needle-crawlers of choice. In other countries like Israel, it were camels. So Jesus used an expression that was common in his time: "a camel passing through the eye of a needle" means "impossible".
That said, I agree that the thing at the bottom looks like the eye of a needle, or at least any kind of eyelet. I'd be more inclined to think at the moment that perhaps some kind of sewing material was derived from the plant, or something else involved in the production of fabrics.
I'm still puzzled by the three bumps. Note that they aren't even lined out - they are just bunches of hairs or spikes or... ??