Summary

Ver. 17. All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
18. The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty everywhere, and the eight five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
19. All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
All the pillars of the court were connected together by the silver rods, and all were furnished with hooks for attaching them: teaching us that all believers should maintain fellowship together in redemption—truth and brotherly love, and all be prepared for it as occasion presents.
All the pillars stood on sockets of brass; and all believers have need of enduring strength in Jesus, to maintain, in such a world as this, their religious character and standing.
All the vessels of the tabernacle for all the service of it, and even the pins of the tabernacle and court, were to be of brass; for the same enduring strength is needed for all manner of service, down to the minutest particulars, in work connected with the name of Jesus and the presence of God.
In Exodus 38:17, we also read, “The overlaying of their chapiters was of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver:” showing that the chapiters, or heads of the pillars, and the fillets, or connecting rods, are distinct; though both were of silver, and all formed out of the redemption money.
Exodus 38:28: “And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.”
The redemption which is in Christ Jesus is not only the foundation of the Christian’s faith, as shown by the silver sockets of the tabernacle: it is also the ground of Christian love and communion, as signified by the silver hooks and connecting rods. And it is also the crown and joy of the Christian’s hope, as signified by the silver chapiters, or crowns of the pillars. His faith, his love, and his hope, having each its ground and center in Jesus, and in his atoning work. T. N.
(The Golden Altar in the Number for September.)