(Ibid. 2) "then the judge shall bend him down": whence we derive that he is not smitten standing.
"and he shall smite him before him according to his wickedness in number.": one-third (the number of stripes) in front, and two-thirds on his back.
"before him": He smites him with his eyes upon him and not upon something else. I might think that he is smitten and put to death or that he is smitten and pays; it is, therefore, written "according to his (one) wickedness" — he is not (both) smitten and put to death; he is not smitten and made to pay.