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Heb_11:26. Indication of cause for Heb_11:25, in such wise that ἡγησάμενος , Heb_11:26, is subordinated to the μᾶλλον ἑλόμενος , Heb_11:25.
τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν τοῦ χριστοῦ ] the reproach of Christ. That signifies not: the reproach for Christ’s sake, which he endured, namely, by virtue of the hope in the Messiah (Castellio, Wolf, Carpzov, Böhme, Kuinoel, Bloomfield, and others). For by the mere genitive this notion cannot be expressed. The sense is: the reproach, as Christ bore it, inasmuch, namely, as the reproach, which Moses took upon him to endure in fellowship with his oppressed people at the hand of the Egyptians, was in its nature homogeneous with the reproach which Christ afterwards had to endure at the hands of unbelievers, to the extent that in the one case as in the other the glory of God and the advancement of His kingdom was the end and aim of the enduring. Comp. τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν αὐτοῦ φέροντες , Heb_13:13, and τὰ παθήματα τοῦ Χριστοῦ 2Co_1:5; as also τὰ ὑστερήματα τῶν θλίψεων τοῦ Χριστοῦ , Col_1:24.
ἀπέβλεπεν γὰρ εἰς τὴν μισθαποδοσίαν ] for he looked stedfastly to the bestowal of the reward. The determining ground for his action.
ἀποβλέπειν in the N. T. only here.
ἡ μισθαποδοσία is the promised heavenly reward, the everlasting salvation; comp. Heb_11:39-40. Unsuitably does Grotius limit the expression to the promised possession of the land of Canaan.