Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another.
God gave them a tent, not a temple, because they were wandering in the wilderness and needed Him movable with them. This tabernacle also teaches us that the church on earth is never settled; we are strangers here, travellers toward heaven, and all our privileges move with us or leave us as we honor or neglect them.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 26:1-6
Fifty loops on each of the two great curtains were made so they would answer to one another exactly. The loops themselves did not take hold of each other; the gold clasps inserted into them brought the two curtain-pieces together and fastened them as one.
AI summary
Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that [is] in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another. (c) In tying together both the sides.