The interpretation of the vision

15 While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there before me stood one who looked like a man. 16 And I heard a man’s voice from the Ulai calling, ‘Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision.’

17 As he came near the place where I was standing, I was terrified and fell prostrate. ‘Son of man,’[a] he said to me, ‘understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.’

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 8:17 The Hebrew phrase ben adam means human being. The phrase son of man is retained as a form of address here because of its possible association with ‘Son of Man’ in the New Testament.