“With hands that were previously defiled, accursed, daily stained with blood in the impure sacrifices in which you took the lives of your children, performed shameful rites and went beyond the limits of nature itself, with these hands now clap. "Shout to God in a voice of happiness." With that tongue by which you taste…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 47:1-2
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1O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
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— Psalms 47:1 —
2For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
3He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.