“Briers and thorns” denote the Lord’s punishment of exile in, for example, 5:6; 6:11–13; 7:22–25; 27:4; 32:13.
Ayat ti kangrunaan a pakailasinan dagiti pasurot ni Kristo, ket “ti ayat . . . saanna a sapulen dagiti bukodna a pagimbagan.”—1 Corinto 13:4, 5; Juan 13:34, 35.