WORTHY — properly weighing as much as, balancing the scale; a commercial and legal word for value before it became a word of praise. ⚠ It becomes Revelation's own vocabulary for worship: the twenty-four elders declare God axios at 4:11 on the grounds of creation ('you created all things'); a mighty angel then asks who is axios to open the sealed scroll (5:2), and heaven finds no one — until the Lamb who was slain is declared axios on entirely different grounds, redemption rather than making (5:9, 5:12). Two hymns, two reasons, the same word deciding both. → first discussed at Rev 4:11