unworthy of this ultimate honor. It is Jesus—the slaughtered Lamb (notably, slaughtered under Rome)—who has the greater worthiness, who has shown more worthily what it means to serve God’s design for humanity and to act as a perfect benefactor. In this picture of the cosmic order, where is there room to worship another? It quickly becomes clear that this vision of the perfectly ordered cosmos is a vision of the way things ought to be, but not of the way things are in every corner of the cosmos. The