Verse 22. They that hate thee shall be clothed with confusion. 90. Whence the reprobate shall blush in the day of judgment. Confusion clothes the enemies of the just in the final examination, because when they behold their past evils, before the eyes of the mind, redounding back upon themselves, their own guilt, pressing them down on every side, clothes them. For to their punishment they then endure the memory of their deeds, who now, as though strangers to the sense of reason, sin rejoicing. There they see how greatly they ought to have fled what they loved; there they behold how mournful was that in which they now exult amid guilt. Then guilt beclouds the soul, and the very conscience assails itself with the darts of its own recollection.
Who, then, can worthily weigh how great the confusion of the wicked will then be, when both without the eternal Judge is beheld, and within, before their eyes, their guilt is turned over? Who come to this for the reason that here they loved only the things that pass away. Whence it is also fitly presently subjoined: