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THORNS AND THISTLES
Symbolic of evils, sufferings, and sorrows.
"Thorns also and thistles shall it (ground) bring forth to thee; and
thou shalt eat the herb of the field." - Genesis iii. 18.
Sins and sufferings shall proceed from the lower nature; and the
lower mind (Adam) shall subsist through the produce of the
sensation-nature and the affections.
"For the body becomes liable to a curse, since it has for its
husbandman an intellect (Adam) unchastened and unsound. And its
fruit is nothing useful, but only thorns and thistles, sorrow and
fear, and other vices which every thought strikes down and, as it
were, pierces the intellect with its darts." - Philo, Works, Yonge,
Vol. IV. p. 309.
"Each man is the soil in which the hereditary Adam-seed produces
thorn and thistle, and the hereditary God-seed produces grape and
fig. The two growths in the same individual strive for the mastery,
and from the deep contrast between them emerges the perfected life
of the child of God." - Basil Wilberforce, Problems, p. 81.
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