1) This is a  a way around denial. By extending David's moral horizon past himself,Nathan then gets David to recover moral perspective.See Peterson's Leap,p.185

2)David recovers through an outraged sense of justice, an important virtue for aking.

3)Ps. 51 is linked to this story. I love that David can pray in the face of this calamitous set of wrongs.

4) David is punished,but not directly. Whatd about God's justice? What about theparade of family
 trouble?

5) We replace the words for sin with softer ones. What does this do for repenting?

6)NIB, p.1294 maeks the good point that Nathan and David both represent the church, so we should not see only admonishing the sinner as the point of the story.

7) David's response then becomes I am a son of death, a chilling line.

8) v.6 pity=saving pity, or life saving compassion, used for Pahroah's daughter.

9) Nathan sees David as betraying god's many gracious deeds. David has done evil, even as he told Joab not to see the Uriah incident as evil in your eyes.

10) David recognizes his sin is not only humna, but against the Lord.