but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”
We have here a solemn ratification of the contents of this book, and particularly of this last vision (though some think it may not only refer to the whole book, but to the whole New Testament, yea, to the whole Bible, completing and confirming the canon of scripture); and here, 1.
Commenting on Revelation 22:6-19
Then saith he unto me,.... The angel at whose feet John fell down to worship: see thou do it not; this he said in great haste, and with much vehemence, to hinder him from doing it, as his short way of speaking shows: for I am thy fellow servant: of God, and of Christ, and am no more the object of worship than thyself; and...
Verse 9. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not. . For I am thy fellow-servant. Barnes on "Re 19:10". And of thy brethren the prophets. In , it is, "of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus." Here the angel says that, in the capacity in which he appeared to John, he belonged to the general rank of the prophets, and...