Matthew Poole and continuators on 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.

Which the Iews say was the case of all those crimes which the law commands to be punished, without expressing the kind or degree of the punishment.

That the punishment may be duely inflicted, without excess or defect, which otherwise might easily happen through the executioners passion or partiality.

Marginal references: Heb. a son of beating, 1 Sam. 26. 16.