Kris P. answered 11/29/15
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The question you pose is, in and of itself, a sentence fragment!
Without citing the source and/or author, you're asking for input whose value once given would be dubious, at best!
Furthermore, the passage begins, as I read it out of any comprehensible context, not with a figurative analogy, but a biblical premise -- that man was fashioned by God from dust and water, which some would/do define as clay!