And lo on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:38:14 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> And lo on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:57:16 -0000, nemesis
>>> The eye of a needle was how a narrow passageway was known at those  
>>> times.
>
>> I think you'll find that's a retrospective explantion. Firstly if it  
>> was an actual place it would have one name
>
> I think you misread, Phil. Nemesis was saying "the eye of a needle" was  
> slang for "alleyway."  Not that it was a specific alleyway.

Well the commonplace misconception was that it was a specific alleyway,  
but you're correct Nemesis wasn't specific in those terms.

> The explanation *I* heard was that the original text said "camel-hair  
> rope" rather than just "camel", but I have no idea where I heard that.

A possible mistranslation kamilos (camel) 'should' have been kamelos  
(rope) then add in all the retrospective about how it was a camel-hair  
rope blah blah; none of which explains why camel got substitued for  
elephant later unless the Jews themselves didn't understand the derivation.

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Phil Cook

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