“I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.”
The offering of bulls and rams and the making of an offering of bulls with goats articulates the scale and generosity of the thanksgiving sacrifice. The enumeration of different sacrificial animals suggests comprehensive and abundant gratitude. This verse emphasizes the material and costly nature of thanksgiving: genuine gratitude is not cheap or reserved.
Church Fathers on Psalms 66:15
1. This Psalm has on the title the inscription, “For the end, a song of a Psalm of Resurrection.” When ye hear “for the end,” whenever the Psalms are repeated, understand it “for Christ:” the Apostle saying, “For the end of the law is Christ, for righteousness to every one believing.” Romans 10:4 In what manner therefore here Resurrection is sung, you will hear, and whose Resurrection it is, as far as Himself deigns to give and disclose. For the Resurrection we Christians…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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