 | John Kennedy - Conduct of life - 1870 - 408 pages
...pilgrims and strangers on the earth, died in faith, desiring a better country, that is, an heavenly. Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people...than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. He esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt : for he looked away from... | |
 | Christian life - 1874 - 942 pages
...as greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. It was this which enabled him to make a right choice. He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people...than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season ; he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. It was this which enabled him to give practical... | |
 | James Battersby - 1876 - 168 pages
...gave directions concerning his bones. The Lord was his confidence. And what is said of Moses ? " That he chose rather to suffer affliction with the people...than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season." He had an eye to Christ — his confidence. He esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the... | |
 | James DeKoven - Sermons, American - 1893 - 472 pages
...ST. PAUL is speaking of the faith of Moses. He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people...than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. He forsook Egypt, not fearing the -wrath of the king. He esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches... | |
 | Charles Henry Crookshank - Ireland - 1881 - 180 pages
...man was too deeply impressed with eternal things to be moved by the loss of temporal advantages, and he ' chose rather to suffer affliction with the people...than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.' He became so attached to Mr. Smith that he accompanied him round the Circuit, notwithstanding the privations... | |
 | rev. Thomas Graham - 1884 - 332 pages
...daughter. He was tempted to a life of ease and self-indulgence in all the perfection of such a life ; but he chose rather to suffer affliction with the people...than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. He was offered unbounded wealth, with all that wealth can purchase; but he esteemed the reproach of Christ... | |
 | Religion - 1891 - 448 pages
...Asians, and ' Commit thou all thy ways,' " alluding to Paul Gerhardt's well-known hymn. Like Moses, he chose rather to suffer affliction with the people...than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. He had heard the voice of the world inviting him to share her dainties and reap her reward, but he had... | |
 | David Martyn Lloyd-Jones - Religion - 1971 - 598 pages
...eleventh chapter of Hebrews. Why did Moses not continue as the child of Pharaoh's daughter? Because he chose 'rather to suffer affliction with the people...than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season'. He had his eye upon the end, 'the recompense of the reward'. He did not stop at thoughts of this life;... | |
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Heb. iv. 14—17. natural to men, and chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. 
