“The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.”
The reference to the assembly with singers and musicians in the midst indicates the entire community participating in celebration of divine triumph. The enumeration of various performers emphasizes the comprehensiveness of the celebration. This verse articulates that worship of God's triumph involves the entire community with all its various voices and instruments.
Church Fathers on Psalms 68:25
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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