and two frames for the two back corners of the tabernacle,
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
And they shall be eight boards,.... Six at the west end and one at each corner, northwest and southwest: and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets the same as those for the boards on both sides north and south: they were of the same metal, silver; and they were two under one board, to receive its two tenons as follows: two sockets under one board...
Exo 26:22-24 Six boards were to be made for the back of the dwelling westwards (ימּה), and two boards “for the corners or angels of the dwelling at the two outermost (hinder) sides.” למקצּעת (for cornered), from מקצּע, equivalent to מקצוע an angle (Exo 26:24; Eze 46:21-22), from קצע to cut off, lit., a section, something cut off, hence an angle, or corner-piece.
Commenting on Exodus 26:22-24