The Hooks and Fillets

Ver. 10. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.) The hooks were to receive the fillets, and the fillets, as the Hebrew word for fillet implies, were connecting rods. These silver rods connected the pillars together, and formed the rods on which the linen curtains hung.
The hooks and connecting rods were to be of silver, and silver is typical of’ redemption; for the atonement money was in silver. (Exodus 30). And silver is also typical of communion; for it was the ordinary medium of circulation. And the hooks fixed in the pillars were always in readiness to receive the connecting rods.
Thus these pillars, standing in the brazen sockets, with their looks and connecting rods of silver, sustaining the curtains of fine twined linen, and forming together the court of the tabernacle, most strikingly and beautifully represent the people of God in their ordinary religious character, established and settled, walking in righteousness and holiness, always prepared’ for, and constantly maintaining communion together, on the ground of their common redemption by the blood of the Lamb, in their intercourse one with another, and in the presence of God.
And it is a sweet and happy thought, affording some consolation in the present state of things, that even now, in the outwardly divided condition of the Church of God, when Church fellowship with the majority of Christians may be sought in vain, we may still maintain communion and love in our intercourse one with another on the ground of our common redemption, by the same precious blood, and of our agreement together in the same fundamental truths of salvation.