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1. The Original Word signifies ¹the slackening and relaxing of things that were firmly joined together. The Strength of the Body proceeds from the Union of the Parts, when they are well compacted together. By their disjointing 'tis enfeebled, and rendered unfit for Labour. In this Motion the Apostle in the 12th Verse exhorts them to lift up the Hands that hang down, and strengthen the feeble Knees: That is, to encourage and strengthen their Souls by a real belief of the Promises made to afflicted Christians.

1. The Original Word signifies ¹the slackening and relaxing of things that were firmly join'd together. The Strength of the Body proceeds from the Union of the Parts, when they are well compacted together. By their disjointing 'tis enfeebled, and rendred unfit for Labour. In this Motion the Apostle in the 12th Verse exhorts them to lift up the Hands that hang down, and strengthen the feeble Knees: That is, to encourage and strengthen their Souls by a real belief of the Promises made to afflicted Christians.

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2. It may respect the sinking, and falling away of the Soul like Water, being hopeless of overcoming Troubles. When Water is frozen into hard Ice, it will bear a great Burden, but when 'tis dissolved and melted, nothing is weaker. So the Spirit of a Man confirmed by ¹religious Principles, is able to sustain all his Infirmities. Si fractus illabitur orbis, if the Weight of the heaviest Afflictions fall upon him, yet his Mind remains erect and unbroken, and bears them all with Courage and Constancy: But if through Impatience under Tribulation, and Diffidence in the Divine Promises, we shrink from our Duty, or reject the Comforts of God as if they were small, and not proportionable to the Evils that oppress us; this is to faint when we are rebuked by him.