And you shall make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear;
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...
These corner beams were two pieces joined at a right angle, forming one double whole from bottom to top. Each received only one ring at the corner, not two, which distinguishes them from the other boards and marks their special strength at the angles where the structure bore most weight.
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Commenting on Exodus 26:22-24