his friend the Adullamite] (His name was Hirah, vers. 12.) but he had shewed himself a better friend if (when he went with Judah to his sheep-shearers, at which time the fact was committed) he had disswaded Judah from it; but it is like he had his part in consenting to the sinne, as well as in concealing of the shame; but friendship is not rightly understood, nor practised; the truest friendship is to save, or deliver a friend from the greatest evill, and the greatest evill is sinne, but to tempt any to that, or to tolerate him in it, is the part rather of an enemy then of a friend. See Annot. on Genesis 20:9. see also, Lev. 19. 17.