Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

[Esteeming the reproach of Christ:] Reproach is taken either materially, or formally; materially, so it may be taken for the affliction that he did endure with Gods people, that outward mean wretched condition that he was like to suffer with the people of God, this was the matter of the reproach. Or otherwise formally, the scorn, contempt, reviling, railing, and all the evil that should be spoken of him when he had left the Court, and joined himself with Gods people; and this formal kind of reproach is that which is especially meant.

[Esteeming the reproach of Christ:] Reproach is taken either materially, or formally; materially, so it may be taken for the affliction that he did endure with Gods people, that outward mean wretched condition that he was like to suffer with the people of God, this was the matter of the reproach. Or otherwise formally, the scorn, contempt, reviling, railing, and all the evil that should be spoken of him when he had left the Court, and joyned himself with Gods people; and this formal kinde of reproach is that which is especially meant.

[The reproach of Christ:] How could that reproach ¹that Moses suffered, be the reproach of Christ? for Christ was not then born, it was a long time after before Christ came into the world.

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Christ was present unto Moses by the eye of ¹faith, though he were not yet come into the world, Christ is the same to day, yesterday, and for ever; he was the same to the Patriarchs and Prophets, that he is to us.