Again, Solomon turns to one of the Ten Commandments and reminds us of the horrific nature of sin. But the lesson he draws this time is about the carelessness with which people sin.
If the constant repeating of sin deadens conscience, reflection on the holiness of God and on the cost that Christ paid to redeem us brings it to life. What our Saviour did is the opposite of what the sinner does when she suppresses conscience. He invited conscience to come to life and speak its worst. He welcomed the scrutiny of God upon sin. Unless the all-seeing eye of God saw every detail, his atoning work could not be complete. But it was not his own sin that he carried, but our sins which he freely made himself responsible for. In order to pay the price for sin, those sins could not be covered up in any way but must be fully exposed and their full horror admitted. So then, while fallen men and women deny sin and suppress conscience, Christ confessed all and received the full penalty of the law on his holy soul.