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Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.
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Verse 8–9. This is the second time the saint wishes to adore the Angel, but not with the supreme worship of latria, as he knew the object of his worship was only an Angel, and of course a mere creature; but the Angel, through respect for Saint John, still refuses the proffered honour, (see Calmet. 19:10) and to shew the holy society that was hereafter to exist between Angels and men, who were to compose but one and the same family. V.
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