If we consider this in a spiritual sense, it will teach us how faint and frail our nature is in all its best soul exercises. Joshua was not faint that we read of in fighting, but yet Moses was, in holding up his hands in prayer. Reader! what an encouraging thought is that of God our Father? Isaiah 40:28-31. And what a precious thought is that respecting the Lord Jesus Christ? Hebrews 7:24-25. Doth not Aaron and Hur suggest to us, how Jesus by his support, and the Holy Ghost by his reviving influences, stay up the drooping minds of the Lord's people?
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Exodus 17:12
12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.