Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her [was] greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.
Ver. 15. Then Amnon hated her exceedingly.] Heb, With great hatred greatly; so did Nero, that shame of mankind, hate his own mother, after that he had carnally known her. So did Semiramis hate her son Ninus; Phaedra her Hippolitus; Medea her Jason, &c. Of these filthy pleasures, a man may break his neck before his fast:
“ Labor est etiam ipsa voluptas. ”
At the last, howsoever, it biteth] like a serpent, and stingeth like a cockatrice. Pro 23:32 Amnon was now pricked in conscience, and ashamed of his horrible sin; hence this extreme hatred. Neither was it without the Lord that this foul crime might come abroad to David's grief, as Martyr noteth, that he might further feel what "an evil and bitter thing sin is."