From Nave’s Topical Bible
Thorn
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 16Passages listed
- 12Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- The ground cursed withGenesis 3:18
- Used
- As an awlJob 41:2
- For fuelPsalms 58:9Psalms 118:12Ecclesiastes 7:6
- Hedges formed ofHosea 2:6Micah 7:4
- Crown of, mockingly put on Jesus' headMatthew 27:29Mark 15:17John 19:2John 19:5
- FIGURATIVE
- Of afflictionsNumbers 33:552 Corinthians 12:7
- Of the adversities of the wickedProverbs 22:5
- Of the evils that spring from the heart to choke the truthMatthew 13:7Matthew 13:22
The passages, in Bible order (16)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 3:18
Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Commentary on Genesis 3:181 voice
There, too, is that distinction between the serpent who is said to eat the earth and Adam, to whom God said: ' You shall eat in sadness the herbs of the field.' [ Gen 3:18 ] We may note here a certain gradation. When we eat the earth, it seems that we are in a sort of warfare. when we eat the herbs, there is a certain advance. when finally, we eat bread, then our life of trial has reached it terminus.
Ambrose of Milan· On Paradise, 15.76-77, 397Patristic
- Numbers 33:55
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.
Commentary on Numbers 33:551 voice
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Job 41:2
Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Commentary on Job 41:21 voice
Hence it is that this very Mary of whom we speak lives, because He who owed nothing to death lay down for the human race. Hence it is that we daily return to life after our sins, because our Creator descended without guilt to our punishment. Behold, the ancient enemy has now lost the spoils he had begun to take from the human race; he has lost the victory of his supplanting. Daily sinners return to life; daily they are snatched from his jaws by the hand of the Redeemer.
Gregory the Dialogist· Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 25, 604Patristic
- Psalms 58:9
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
Commentary on Psalms 58:91 voice
Before your pots can feel the thorns,.... Which is soon done; for as dry thorns make a great blaze, so they give a quick heat; the pots soon feel them, or the water in them soon receives heat from them. From imprecations the psalmist proceeds to prophesy, and foretells the sudden destruction of wicked men, which would be before a pot could be heated with a blaze of thorns.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 118:12
They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
Commentary on Psalms 118:121 voice
When a thought oppresses you, do not be downhearted but put up with it in courage, saying, "They swarmed around me closer and closer, but I drove them back in the name of the Lord." Divine help will arrive at your side immediately, and you …
Pachomius the Great· INSTRUCTIONS 9, 348Patristic
- Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.
Commentary on Proverbs 22:51 voice
Swords and arrows in the way of the perverse, etc. This is to be understood in two ways, because the perverse are always armed to harm their neighbors, either by word or wicked deed, and they themselves are always awaited by the prepared retribution of …
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735Patristic
- Ecclesiastes 7:6
For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 7:61 voice
"It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. For as the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this too is vanity. "For it is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by flattering praise. Similar to this is the passage which says, "better are the wounds of a friend, than the free kisses of an enemy" [Prov. 27, 6.].
Jerome· Commentary on Ecclesiastes, 420Patristic
- Hosea 2:6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
- Micah 7:4
The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.
Commentary on Micah 7:42 voices
(Chapter 7, Verses 1 onwards) Woe is me, for I have become like one who gathers the grapes of the vineyard in autumn: there is no cluster to eat; my soul longed for the early figs. The holy one has perished from the earth, and there is no upright person among mankind. They all lie in wait for blood; each hunts his brother to death. They declare their evil deeds as good; the ruler demands, and the judge accepts bribes, and the great one speaks of the cravings of his own soul, and they trouble it.
Jerome· Commentary on Micah, 420Patristic
The best of them is as a brier,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Matthew 13:7
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
Commentary on Matthew 13:72 voices
(Verse 5 and following) Some fell by the wayside: and the birds of the air came and devoured them. Others fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil. But when the sun rose, they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. Others fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Others fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
For who would ever have believed me if I had wished to interpret thorns as riches, especially since the former prick while the latter delight? And yet they are thorns, because they tear the mind with the prickings of their thoughts, and when they drag it all the way to sin, they cause it to bleed as if by an inflicted wound. These, in this passage, as another evangelist attests, the Lord calls not simply riches, but deceitful riches, and rightly so.
Gregory the Dialogist· Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 15, 604Patristic
- Matthew 13:22
The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
- Matthew 27:29
And they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand and knelt down before Him to mock Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
Commentary on Matthew 27:292 voices
He had been styled King of the Jews, and the Scribes and Priests had brought this charge against Him, that He claimed sovereignty over the Jewish nation; hence this mockery of the soldiers, taking away His own garments, they put on Him a scarlet cloak to represent that purple fringe which kings of old used to wear, for the diadem they put on Him a crown of thorns, and for the regal sceptre give Him a reed, and perform adoration to Him as to a king. All these things we may understand mystically.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
That scarlet robe was prefigured by the scarlet sign mentioned in Joshua the son of Nun, which Rahab used for her safety, and mentioned in Genesis, which was placed on the hand of one of Tamar's newborn sons in token of the future Passion of Christ. So now, in taking up the "scarlet robe," he took upon himself the blood of the world, and in that thorny "crown" plaited on his head he took upon himself the thorns of our sins. As to the robe, it is written that "they stripped him of the scarlet robe."
Origen of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 125.9, 253Patristic
- Mark 15:17
They dressed Him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and set it on His head.
- John 19:2
The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.
- John 19:5
When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
- 2 Corinthians 12:7
or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
Commentary on 2 Corinthians 12:71 voice
The Apostle Paul has, moreover, in the most lucid manner, pointed out that man has been delivered over to his own infirmity, lest, being uplifted, he might fall away from the truth. Thus he says in the second [Epistle] to the Corinthians: "And lest I should be lifted up by the sublimity of the revelations, there was given unto me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me. And upon this I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book V, 202Patristic