“Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.”
Musical instruments: "Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody." The lyre's music accompanies the praises. Musical aesthetic is valued.
Church Fathers on Psalms 98:5
1. “O sing unto the Lord a new song” Psalm 97:1. The new man knows this, the old man knows it not. The old man is the old life, and the new man the new life: the old life is derived from Adam, the new life is formed in Christ. But in this Psalm, the whole world is enjoined to sing a new song. More openly elsewhere the words are these: “O sing unto the Lord a new song; sing unto the Lord, all the whole earth;” that they who cut themselves off from the communion of the whole…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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