The thorn combines images of that which troubled Christ thus intimating man 's seeming desire to hurt God and also of the protecting thorn and the need to enclose a secret place or the soul from attack .
Christ is the Crown of Thorns .
The thorn combines images of that which troubled Christ , the Crown of Thorns , thus intimating man 's seeming desire to hurt God and also of the protecting thorn and the need to enclose a secret place or the soul from attack .