Hebrews 11:26

Accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.

The reproach of Christ is variously understood by commentators, some believing that: (1) it is the same kind of reproach that Christ suffered; (2) it is the reproach suffered for one's faith in Christ; (3) it is the reproach that fell on Moses as the type of Christ; or (4) it is the reproach that Christ had to bear in his own person and also in the person of every believer in Christ. To this writer, it seems that all of these things are in the reproach of Christ mentioned here. Both the ancients who believed God's promise, acting accordingly, and anticipating the coming of the Holy One; and also the present believers who likewise accept the promise of the Holy One, as already manifested in the flesh in the person of Christ - both and all of these, ancient and modern, or whenever, when they suffer as invariably happens when righteousness encounters the inherent antagonism of evil, all such indeed do suffer the reproach of Christ.

For he looked unto the recompense of reward. This is a clear reference to the eternal reward of faith, everlasting life; and, as this chapter develops, it is more and more apparent that it was the SUPERNATURAL which Abraham and his posterity so devoutly believed in and which motivated them in all their astounding deeds of faith. See more on this below. Surely, not in a million years could Moses have supposed that his reward as a volunteer deliverer of a nation of slaves could ever have approached the kind of temporal rewards that he already enjoyed in Egypt, especially since Moses, like Christ, was rejected by his brethren, was the butt of their continual objecting and complaining, and was often vexed by their obstinate and unappreciative behavior. It was Moses' respect to the heavenly reward that sustained and motivated his magnanimous life of unselfish love and service of the Hebrew nation. That alone could have strengthened him to endure all the trials experienced in his deliverance of them from bondage.