“This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.”
The reference to praise being more pleasing to God than sacrifice articulates that authentic worship is the proper response and offering. The reference to bulls with horns and hoofs suggests valuable sacrificial animals, yet the psalmist affirms that simple praise exceeds such offerings in value. This verse establishes the supremacy of heartfelt worship over institutional religion.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:31
1. We have been born into this world, and added to the people of God, at that period wherein already the herb from a grain of mustard seed has spread out its branches; wherein already the leaven, which at first was contemptible, has leavened three measures, that is, the whole round world repeopled by the three sons of Noe: Genesis 9:19 for from East and West and North and South shall come they that shall sit down with the Patriarchs, Matthew 8:11 while those shall have been…
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