is used in the way that, as we have seen, God and Christ appear together as the subject of a singular verb (Rev 11:15), as the antecedent to a singular pronoun (Rev 22:3–4; 6:17), with each described as joint occupants of a singular throne (e.g., Rev 22:1, 3). Whilst Hurtado’s work has shown that what Christians did to Jesus is in many ways equivalent to both the pagan treatment of their gods and also Israel’s own worship of the one God in the cultic context, recent voices in the ongoing debate have
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