EXOD58 Man, consisting of body and spirit, combines both evil and good. His body is the seed of corruption. Considering the senses as evil, sin appears innate in man. As in rabbinic teaching, suffering coming as punishment of sin is good despite its seeming badness, for it disciplines and sobers sinners and their associates. [Schurer, Hist. of Jewish People, Vol. III, p. 376ff]. In [this verse], "the thornbush is not consumed", Yedaiah Haenini takes the word "thornbush" as a symbol of evil. [M. Waxman, Mishle Yisrael, 5364]. Like the thorn on the rosebush, evil is a permanent element in the world, whose goal is goodness.