For thou didst [it] secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
Ver. 12. For thou didst it secretly.] As fearing men more than me; whereas an honest heathen could say, Although I were sure homines ignoraturos, et Deos ignoscituros, a that men knew it not, and that the gods would pardon it, yet for the filth that is in sin, I would not commit it. It is not for men to put their sins in a secret place, as Deuteronomy 27:15, to pull down the bush with a vintner, for God will detect them and men shall detest them; at the last day howsoever, if not before, when every man's faults shall be written in his forehead, and, it shall be said, Behold the man, and behold his works.
Before all Israel.] Palam et publice: yea, thou shalt voluntarily shame and shent thyself, doing penance for thine offence, as it were, in a white sheet. Psalms 51:1 , title
And before the sun.] For Absalom abused his father's concubines on the house top: and haply on that same terrace from whence he first looked, liked, and lusted after Bathsheba.
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