and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.
Boards without grace in the heart are like curtains without boards: shaken by every wind and soon falling. God's tabernacle was strong as well as fine, and so must our profession be. The new Jerusalem needs no gilded boards; its glory far exceeds the old, for wisdom outweighs all the gold and silver that ever adorned a tent.
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Commenting on Exodus 26:15-30
The corner planks knit the end and side together and were the strength of the building. This is how Christ makes Jews and Gentiles one spiritual temple, binding them into a single structure through His Person.
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The sockets, or bases, hold the tenons of the boards so they stand upright. The word 'southward' here shows the text was written in the desert, not Palestine; a man in Canaan would have no need to clarify what negeb means.
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Commenting on Exodus 26:18-21