Esteeming the reproach of Christ— This signifies "reproach suffered for the sake of Christ," as the marks of the Lord Jesus are the marks of the stripes which were borne for the sake of Jesus. See Galatians 6:17. Dumont supposes, that the Israelites expected deliverance by the Messiah, and that the Egyptians insulted them on that account. The recompence of reward could not be temporal grandeur, which he might have had with much greater security and advantage in Egypt;—nor the possession of Canaan, which he never obtained: it must therefore be the eternal inheritance, which was discovered to him by the divine principle here so largely described and recommended.
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Hebrews 11:26
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christd greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.