Daniel 8:17

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Silloin hän tuli aivan lähelle sitä paikkaa, jossa minä seisoin; ja hänen tullessansa minut valtasi pelko, ja minä lankesin kasvoilleni. Ja hän sanoi minulle: "Tarkkaa, ihmislapsi, sillä näky tarkoittaa lopun aikaa".

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I was: Daniel 10:7, Daniel 10:8, Daniel 10:16, Genesis 17:3, Ezekiel 1:28, Matthew 17:8, Mark 9:4, Mark 9:5, Revelation 1:17, Revelation 19:9, Revelation 19:10, Revelation 22:8

Understand: Daniel 8:15, Daniel 9:23, Daniel 10:11

O son: Ezekiel 2:1, Ezekiel 6:2

at: Daniel 8:19, Daniel 9:27, Daniel 11:35, Daniel 11:36, Daniel 12:4, Daniel 12:13, Habakkuk 2:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:17 - fell Numbers 24:4 - falling Judges 13:6 - terrible Ezekiel 3:23 - and I fell Daniel 7:28 - the end Daniel 8:18 - I was Daniel 11:40 - at the Habakkuk 3:2 - I have Matthew 17:6 - General Mark 16:5 - and they Luke 24:5 - they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So he came near where I stood,.... The angel immediately obeyed the divine Person in human form, and came near the prophet, in order to instruct him, and carry on a familiar conversation with him:

and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face; not being able to bear the glory that attended him; and especially when he considered him as the messenger of a divine Person sent to instruct him, and being conscious of his own frailty and weakness:

but he said unto me, understand, O son of man: give attention in order to understand the vision, which the angel, by a divine command, was about to give him the full meaning of; and which he could not so well attend unto in his present circumstance and posture; and therefore suggests he should shake off his fear, and stand on his feet, and listen to what he was about to say: he calls him "son of man", a title only given to him and Ezekiel; and so may be considered as a mark of honour and respect, as being one greatly beloved and honoured by the Lord; or to express his tender regard to him, and accommodating himself to him, considering he was a frail mortal man; or to put him in mind that he should so consider himself, though now among angels, and favoured with revelations of secrets, that so he might not be exalted with them above measure:

for at the time of the end shall be the vision; or rather, "for a time is the end of the vision" l; there is a set, fixed, and determined time, when the vision shall end, and have its full accomplishment; namely, when the 2300 days are expired.

l לעת קץ החזון "ad tempus, finis visionis", Munster, Montanus, Calvin.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So he came near where I stood - He had seen him, evidently, at first in the distance. He now drew near to Daniel, that he might communicate with him the more readily.

And when, he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face - Doubtless perceiving that he was a celestial being. See the notes at Revelation 1:17. Compare Ezekiel 1:28, and Daniel 10:8-9. He was completely overpowered by the presence of the celestial stranger, and sank to the ground.

But he said unto me, Understand, O son of man - Give attention, that you may understand the vision. On the phrase “son of man,” see the notes at Daniel 7:13. It is here simply an address to him as a man.

For at the time of the end shall be the vision - The design of this expression is undoubtedly to cheer and comfort the prophet with some assurance of what was to occur in future times. In what way this was done, or what was the precise idea indicated by these words, interpreters have not been agreed. Maurer explains it, “for this vision looks to the last time; that is, the time which would immediately precede the coming of the Messiah, which would be a time of calamity, in which the guilt of the wicked would be punished, and the virtue of the saints would be tried, to wit, the time of Antiochus Epiphanes.” Lengerke supposes that the end of the existing calamities - the sufferings of the Jews - is referred to; and that the meaning is, that in the time of the Messiah, to which the vision is extended, there would be an end of their sufferings and trials. The design of the angel, says he, is to support and comfort the troubled seer, as if he should not be anxious that these troubles were to occur, since they would have an end, or, as Michaelis observes, that the seer should not suppose that the calamities indicated by the vision would have no end.

Perhaps the meaning may be this: “The vision is for the time of the end;” that is, it has respect to the closing period of the world, under which the Messiah is to come, and necessarily precedes that, and leads on to that. It pertains to a series of events which are to introduce the latter times, when the kingdom of God shall be set up on the earth. In justification of this view of the passage, it may be remarked that this is not only the most obvious view, but is sustained by all those passages which speak of the coming of the Messiah as “the end,” the “last days,” etc. Thus 1 Corinthians 10:11 : “upon whom the ends of the world are come.” Compare the notes at Isaiah 2:2. According to this interpretation, the meaning is, “the vision pertains to the end, or the closing dispensation of things;” that is, it has a bearing on the period when the end will come, or will introduce that period. It looks on to future times, even to those times, though now remote (compare Daniel 8:26), when a new order of things will exist, under which the affairs of the world will be wound up. Compare the notes at Hebrews 1:2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. At the time of the end shall be the vision. — Or, as Houbigant, "The vision shall have an end at the proper time."