“The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.”
The vision of God ascending with chariots and thousands of angels establishes the eschatological or divine moment when God manifests power with overwhelming celestial retinue. The reference to the Lord coming from Sinai indicates continuity between the ancient theophany and the ultimate vindication. This verse articulates the grandeur of divine appearance and triumph.
Church Fathers on Psalms 68:17
1. Of this Psalm, the title seems not to need operose discussion: for simple and easy it appears. For thus it stands: “For the end, for David himself a Psalm of a Song.” But in many Psalms already we have reminded you what is “at the end: for the end of the Law is Christ for righteousness to every man believing:” Romans 10:4 He is the end which makes perfect, not that which consumes or destroys. Nevertheless, if any one endeavours to inquire, what means, “a Psalm of a Song:”…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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