On Revelation 19.10: See that
you do not do that! I am your fellow servant and one of your brothers.
40. Lot and Joshua worship
angels and yet are not prohibited from worshiping them. But in the Apocalypse John
wants to worship an angel, and yet the same angel stops him from feeling
obligated to worship him, saying: See that you do not do that! I am your
fellow servant and one of your brothers (Rv. 19.10). Why is it before the
advent of the Redeemer angels are worshiped by human beings and they remain
silent, but afterwards they balk at being worshiped? It must be because after
they behold our nature, which they formerly despised, taken up above themselves,
they become fearful of seeing it placed beneath themselves. No longer did they
dare to scorn as beneath themselves and weak what they venerate above themselves,
namely, in the King of heaven. Nor do they disdain having a human being as
their companion, seeing that they worship the God-man above themselves. (Gregory
the Great, Homilies on the Gospels 8 [2], 45-58, as found in “Testimonies
of Gregory the Great on the Apocalypse,” in Cassiodorus, St. Gregory the
Great, and Anonymous Greek Scholia: Writings on the Apocalypse [trans. Mark
DelCogliano; The Fathers of the Church 144; Washington, D. C.: The Catholic
University of America Press, 2022], 73)
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