Verse 17
17. Here, at least, son of man means human as contrasted with angelic or divine. (Compare Daniel 7:13.) Daniel, though accustomed to angelic presences (Daniel 7:10; Daniel 7:16), was “terrified” either at the appearance of this greatest of the angels, or, as Gabriel’s first words may suggest, being overwhelmed with the thought that now at last this most profound mystery is about to be explained. (Compare Daniel 8:27.)
At the time of the end Rather, the vision belongeth to the time of the end. The “end” does not refer to the end of the world; for the vision does not refer to this. Rather, as Daniel 8:19 proves and the interpretation of the vision necessitates, the “end” is the “end of the indignation” or “wrath,” which the Jews were then suffering under Antiochus. With this king the power of the fourth brute kingdom is to be broken, after which comes the kingdom of God under the peaceful rule of one who is like the Son of man (Daniel 7:13-14).
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