looks for incomers to the assembly of believers to ‘fall on their faces and worship God’ (1 Cor. 14:25). And in the Revelation of John, God is regularly the focus of worship (proskynein).11 Moreover, it is not only false worship of the beast that is rebuked,12 but also any worship of other than God: the interpreting angel explicitly rebukes proskynēsis offered to him by the seer, and says emphatically, ‘Worship (proskynēson) God’ (Rev. 19:10; 22:8–9). There are a few other occasions in the New Testament
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