THE ANTELOPE. 118

“In the name of our God we have seen fit to bring an
elephant through the eye of a needle.” The Koran has
this expression, “‘ Until the camel shall enter the needle’s
eye.” These illustrations are important, to fix the true
force and meaning of the expression; and they show the
error of several Greek transcribers (followed by some trans-
lators), who, not understanding the expression as it stood,
took the liberty of supposing it a mistake, and therefore
substituted “a cable” for “a camel,” producing the read-
ing “It is easier for a cable to go through the eye of a
needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of
God.”

In many places of Scripture where the dromedary is
mentioned, it is supposed that a finer breed of camel is
meant,—one used principally for riding, and bearing the
same relation to the common camel in the Kast, that a race-
horse and hunter bear to a coach-horse or pack-horse in
England.

Antitorr.—The Antelope. (Plate VIII. Antilope Ara-
bica, the Arabian Antelope.)

The species of this beautiful genus are so numerous, and
differ so much from each other, that it is difficult to give a
description equally applicable to all. It may, however, be

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