Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
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Gill's Exposition
By faith he forsook Egypt,.... Either when he fled to Midian; this was before the eating of the passover, and so it stands in its proper order; whereas, his going out of Egypt with the children of…
Barnes' Notes
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God - With those whom God had chosen to he his people - the Israelites. They were then oppressed and down-trodden; but they were the descendants…
The apostle, having given us a more general account of the grace of faith, now proceeds to set before us some illustrious examples of it in the Old Testament times, and these may be divided into two…
Cambridge Bible
with the people of Cod Heb 4:9.
the pleasures of sin for a season The brevityof sinful enjoyment is alluded to in Job 20:5, "The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for…
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