[FN#260] i.e. the bird of clay fabled by the Koran (following the Apocryphal Gospel of the childhood of Christ) to have been animated by him.
[FN#261] Koran ii.
[FN#262] Koran ii. 256, "God, there is no god but He, the Living, the Eternal. Slumber taketh him not, neither sleep, and His is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth. Who is he that intercedeth with Him but by His leave? He knoweth what is before them and what is behind them, nor do they comprehend aught of the knowledge of Him but of what He willeth. His throne embraceth the heavens and the earth and the guarding of them oppresseth Him not, for He is the Most High, the Supreme."
[FN#263] Koran ii. 159.
[FN#264] Koran xvi. 92.
[FN#265] Paradise, Koran lxx. 38.
[FN#266] Koran xxxix. 54.
[FN#267] See note, p. 338 supra. {Vol. 4, FN#236}
[FN#268] Koran xii. 18.
[FN#269] Koran ii. 107.