“Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.”
The imperative to lift up gates and be lifted up, everlasting doors, so the King of glory may come in shifts to the liturgical entry of the divine king. The gates and doors imagery suggests the sanctuary's entrance. The imperative form suggests commanding the sanctuary to open. The King of glory suggests God's majestic royal status. This verse invokes the opening of the sanctuary to receive God.
Church Fathers on Psalms 24:7
A psalm of David himself, on the first day of the week. 1. A Psalm of David himself, touching the glorifying and resurrection of the Lord, which took place early in the morning on the first day of the week, which is now called the Lord's Day. 2. “The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof, the compass of the world, and all they that dwell therein” Psalm 23:1; when the Lord, being glorified, is announced for the believing of all nations; and the whole compass of the…
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