The camel was a usual food in Arabia, but yielding bad nourishment, as Galen notes.
Divideth not the hoof, to wit, so as to have his foot cloven in two, which being expressed Lev_11:3, is here to be understood; otherwise the camel’s hoof is divided, but it is but a small and imperfect division, as Aristotle and Pliny observe, and observation shows.