Worthy to be beaten; which the Jews say was the case of all those crimes which the law commands to be punished, without expressing the kind or degree of the punishment. Before his face; that the punishment may be duly inflicted, without excess or defect, which otherwise might easily happen through the executioner's passion or partiality.
Related Commentaries of Deuteronomy 25:2
Deuteronomy 25:2
2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.