“God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.”
The reference to God ascending amid shouts and the sound of the trumpet establishes a processional or enthronement image. The image of God ascending suggests either the ascent of the ark of the covenant (understood as God's throne) or a mythological ascension into heaven. The accompaniment of shouts and trumpet sounds suggests ceremonial celebration and public recognition of divine kingship. The specific reference to the trumpet evokes both military and cultic imagery; the trumpet announces important events. The image of God ascending establishes a moment of divine epiphany and the public manifestation of divine kingship.
Church Fathers on Psalms 47:5
1. The title of the Psalm goes thus. “To the end: for the sons of Korah: a Psalm of David himself.” These sons of Korah have the title also of some other Psalms, and indicate a sweet mystery, insinuate a great Sacrament: wherein let us willingly understand ourselves, and let us acknowledge in the title us who hear, and read, and as in a glass set before us behold who we are. The sons of Korah, who are they?. ..Haply the sons of the Bridegroom. For the Bridegroom was crucified…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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