klhqh'nai ) marks the habitual language of familiar intercourse. uiJo;" qug. Far. ] The anarthrous form is significant (not th'" qug. ): son of a royal princess, of one who was Pharaoh's daughter. Comp. Euseb. Praep. Ev. 9.27.
Heb. 11:25. ma'llon eJlovmeno" ... ajpovlausin ] choosing rather to be evil entreated...than to have enjoyment of sin for a season. Vulg. magis eligens adfligi...quam temporalis peccati habere jucunditatem. Moses was called to devote himself to his people. He knew the source of the call: to have disobeyed it therefore by seeking to retain his place in the Egyptian court would have been sin, though such disloyalty would have given him the opportunity for a transitory enjoyment of the resources of princely state.
The word
sunkakoucei'sqai
, which is classical, is found here only in the N. T. Compare
kakoucei'sqai
Heb. 11:37; 13:3.
tw'/ law'/ tou' qeou'
] Compare 4:9 note. Moses was able to recognise in a host of bondsmen a divine nation. By faith he saw what they were called to be.
aJmart. ajpovlausin
]
enjoyment of sin
, that is of that life which was sin. The
gen.
aJmartiva"
is the direct object of
ajpovlausi"
, though
ajpovlausi"
may be used absolutely, and
aJmartiva"
characterise it (sinful enjoyment).
jApovlausi"
, which is not found in LXX. occurs again in 1 Tim. 6:17. Comp. 2 Clem. x.
proh/rhmevnoi ma'llon th;n ejnqavde ajpovlausin h] th;n mevllousan ejpaggelivan
.
For the order
provsk. e[cein aJmart. ajp.
compare Heb. 6:5
kalo;n geus.
q. rJ.
; and for
provskairo"
see Matt. 13:21; 2 Cor. 4:18.
{Ora de; pw'" aJmartivan ojnomavzei to; mh; sugkakoucei'sqai toi'" ajdelfoi'" ... eij de; oiJ mh; sugkakoucouvmenoi eJkovnte" toi'" kakopaqou'sin aJmartavnousi, tiv logistevon peri; tw'n kakoucouvntwn kai; kakopoiouvntwn ; (Theophlct).
Heb. 11:26.
m. p. hJgh".
...
tou' cristou'
]
since he counted the reproach of
the Christ
..., Vulg.
majores divitias aestimans...inproperium Christi.
This clause is commonly taken as parallel with that which precedes:
ma'llon eJlovmeno"
...
meivz. pl. hJgh".
(
choosing...accounting
...), but it seems rather to give the ground of the choice: choosing rather...since he accounted...
The reproach of the Christ is the reproach which belongs to Him who is the appointed envoy of God to a rebellious world. This reproach which was endured in the highest degree by Christ Jesus (Rom. 15:3) was endured also by those who in any degree prefigured or represented Him, those, that is, in whom He partially manifested and manifests Himself, those who live in Him and in whom He lives. Comp. Bern. Ep. xcviii. § 4.
In this wider sense the people of Israel was an anointed one, a Christ, even as Christians are Christs (comp. Ps. 105:15; 1 John 2:20). The Christ is the support and the spring of all revelation to men (1 Cor. 10:4).
For the general thought compare Ps. 89:50 f.; 69:9; 2 Cor. 1:5; Col. 1:24; Heb. 13:13.
Chrysostom takes the
tou' cristou'
as defining the nature of the sufferings:
tou'tov ejstin
[
oJ
]
ojneidismo;" tou' cristou', to; mevcri tevlou" kai; ejscavth" ajnapnoh'" pavscein kakw'"
...
o{tan ti" para; oijkeivwn, o{tan ti" parj w|n eujergetei' ojneidivzhtai
...
ajpevblepen gavr
...] Vulg.
aspiciebat enim in remunerationem
, for he