Revelation 19:10

Author of this commentary on the Apocalypse / Revelation

{final book of the New Testament Canon}

is

Gregory the Great -- canonized saint, doctor of the Church,

elected Pope in 590 and served until his death 604 C.E.

from Writings on the Apocalypse (Fathers of the Church

series volume 144, published 2022)

See that you do not do that!  I am your fellow servant

and one of your brothers (Apocalypse 19:10)

From Gregory's Homilies on the Gospels Book VIII

"Lot and Joshua worship angels and yet

are not prohibited from worshiping them

[ see Genesis 19:1 and Joshua 5:13-15 ].

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. Why is it

that before the advent of the Redeemer angels

are worshipped by human beings and they

remain silent, but afterwards they balk at being

worshipped?  It must be because after they

behold our nature, which they formerly despised,

taken up above themseves, 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 (JESUS Christ the

Lord).  Nor do they disdain having a human being

as their companion, seeing that they worship the

GOD-Man above themselves.