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.’

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

19 He said: ‘I am going to tell you what will happen later in the time of wrath, because the vision concerns the appointed time of the end.[b]

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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.
  2. Daniel 8:19 Or because the end will be at the appointed time