Verse 26
26. Reproach of Christ Still more impressive use of Christian terms. Not appreciating the author’s purpose in this, the commentators are at a loss to decide why Moses should be said to suffer the reproach of Christ. Our author means to tell his wavering Hebrews that their firm adherence to the despised Christ is essentially identical with the faith, and choice, and suffering, of Moses. It was truly for a Messiah to come that Moses suffered; it was for the Messiah that has come that his Hebrews are called to suffer. Hence, in Hebrews 13:13, he applies the same expression to them. Compare, also, 2 Corinthians 1:5, and Colossians 1:24.
Reward Moses, as the Hebrew brethren should, preferred the divine favour and eternal blessedness to royal rank. Bloomfield, quoting Doddridge, well says: “Surely that reward could not be temporal grandeur, which he might have had with much greater security in Egypt.”
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