When in the S 29: 41 the similitude of the SPIDER was used, and similarly in the S 22: 73 the similitude of the FLY was struck, a group of PAGANS criticized and mocked and said: `What sort of Divine inspiration is this, by which similitudes of gnat, spider, and fly are struck and used! So was the above verse (NO. 26) revealed to answer their childish question in an exalted language.'