Hebrews 11:26

τῶν Αἰγύπτου. The reading τῶν ἐν Αἰγύπτου is less well supported. It is of course explicable by an ellipse of γῇ.

τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν τοῦ Χριστοῦ. “The reproach of the Christ” (comp. Hebrews 13:13; Matthew 5:11-12; 2 Corinthians 1:5; Romans 15:3; Philippians 3:7-11; Colossians 1:24). There may be in the words a reminiscence of Psalms 89:50-51, “Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants … wherewith thine enemies have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.” By “the reproach of the Christ” is meant “the reproach which He had to bear in His own person, and has to bear in that of His members” (2 Corinthians 1:5). It is true that in no other passage of the Epistle does the writer allude to the mystical oneness of Christ and His Church, but he must have been aware of that truth from intercourse with St Paul and knowledge of his writings. Otherwise we must suppose him to imply that Moses by faith realised, at least dimly, that he was suffering as Christ would hereafter suffer.

ἀπέβλεπεν γάρ. Lit., “for he was looking away from it to.” What Moses had in view was something wholly different from sinful pleasure. The verb is found here only in the N. T.