“Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;”
King James Version (KJV)
11:23 They saw - Doubtless with a divine presage of things to come.
11:24 Refused to be called - Any longer.
11:26 The reproach of Christ - That which he bore for believing in the Messiah to come, and acting accordingly. For he looked off - From all those perishing treasures, and beyond all those temporal hardships Unto the recompence of reward - Not to an inheritance in Canaan; he had no warrant from God to look for this, nor did he ever attain it; but what his believing ancestors looked for, - a future state of happiness in heaven.
11:27 By faith he left Egypt - Taking all the Israelites with him. Not then fearing the wrath of the king - As he did many years before, #Ex 2:14|. #Ex 14:15|, &c.
Heb 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God. There were honor, wealth and pleasure in the palace, but affliction with the enslaved nation. He chose the latter by faith. Than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. The pleasures of sin are transient.