Add parallel Print Page Options

16 and on the Ulai I heard a human voice that cried out, “Gabriel,[a] explain the vision to this man.” 17 When he came near where I was standing, I fell prostrate in terror. But he said to me, “Understand, O son of man, that the vision refers to the end time.”[b] 18 As he spoke to me, I fell forward unconscious; he touched me and made me stand up.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 8:16 The angel Gabriel is mentioned here for the first time in the Bible. There is wordplay in the preceding verse on geber, “manlike figure.”
  2. 8:17 The end time: the time when God sits in judgment on the wicked (v. 19).

16 And I heard a man’s voice from the Ulai(A) calling, “Gabriel,(B) tell this man the meaning of the vision.”(C)

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

18 While he was speaking to me, I was in a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.(F) Then he touched me and raised me to my feet.(G)

Read full chapter

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.