And Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
Ver. 26. She hath been more righteous than I.] A free confession, joined with confusion of his sin; for he knew her no more. This was, to "confess and forsake sin," as Solomon hath it. Pro 28:13 Not like that of Saul; "I have sinned, yet honour me before the people": 1Sa 15:30 or that of those in the wilderness; "We have sinned; we will go up": they might as well have said, We have sinned, we will sin. Deu 1:41 The worser sort of Papists will say, When we have sinned, we must confess; and when we have confessed, we must sin again, that we may also confess again, and make work for new indulgences and jubilees; making account of confessing, as drunkards do of vomiting. a But true confession goes along with hatred, care, apology.
a Sandys's Relation of West. Relig., sec. 8.