“Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.”
Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe. Additional instruments (tambourine, strings, pipe) join the catalog; dance represents physical movement as form of worship. The incorporation of dance suggests that the whole body participates in praise; worship engages not merely voice but bodily movement and gesture.
Church Fathers on Psalms 150:4
1. Although the arrangement of the Psalms, which seems to me to contain the secret of a mighty mystery, has not yet been revealed unto me, yet, by the fact that they in all amount to one hundred and fifty, they suggest somewhat even to us, who have not as yet pierced with the eye of our mind the depth of their entire arrangement, whereon we may without being over-bold, so far as God gives, be able to speak. Firstly, the number fifteen, whereof it is a multiple this number…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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