The Sockets of Silver.;

And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons, ver. 19.) The comparison of Exodus 30: 11 to 16 and 38: 25 to 28, with 1 Peter 1:18, 19; will give us most clearly and beautifully the spiritual import of these sockets of silver. “And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, when thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then they shall give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them when thou numberest them. This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs;) an half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord. The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the Lord, to make atonement for you souls. (Exodus 30:1 to 15.)
“Forasmuch as ye know,” says Peter, “that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold.......but with the precious blood of Christ, As of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”
All God’s people are numbered as a ransomed people; to be reckoned among them on the ground of profession merely, is to come under judgment. The tares will in due time be all burned in the fire. (Matthew 13)
The redemption, price is fixed by nod himself. The value of the Soul, and the demerit of sin, being estimated according to divine holiness and its requirements. (“After the shekel of the sanctuary.”) There can be no ransom for the soul, and no redemption for the sinner at a less price than the precious” blood of Christ and all souls are of equal value. Then as to the use made of the redemption silver. “And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of the congregation that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls.” (Exodus 30:16.) “And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation, was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and three score and, fifteen Shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of the hundred talents of silver were cast he sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of, the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.” (Exodus38: 25,27,)
A talent of silver is computed at £342 3s. 9d.; talent being abort 114 lbs weight.
Thus typically each individual comparing the habitation of God is seen standing, on, redemption as a soul ransomed by the precious brood of Christ, God’s, spotless Lamb; and the whole foundations of the tabernacle are laid in that which is the memorial to God’s people and the memorial before God of the completed work of Jesus.
The ‘candlestick was made of one talent of gold, expressive of the, all-sufficiency of Divine, grace, as provided testimony.
And to each, socket of the ‘tabernacle there was apportioned a whole talent of silver, expressive of the all-sufficiency of the redemption price.