13 ¶ As I beheld in visions by night, behold, [a]one like the son of man came in the clouds of heaven, and [b]approached unto the Ancient of days, and they brought him before him.

14 And he gave him [c]dominion, and honor, and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall never be taken away: and his dominion shall never be destroyed.

15 ¶ I Daniel was [d]troubled in my spirit, in the midst of my body, and the visions of mine head made me afraid.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 7:13 Which is meant of Christ, who had not yet taken upon him man’s nature, neither was the son of David according to the flesh, as he was afterward: but appeared then in a figure, and that in the clouds: that is, being separate from the common sort of men by manifest signs of his divinity.
  2. Daniel 7:13 To wit, when he ascend into the heavens, and his divine majesty appeared, and all power was given unto him, in respect of that that he was our Mediator.
  3. Daniel 7:14 This is meant of the beginning of Christ’s kingdom, when God the Father gave unto him all dominion, as to the Mediator, to the intent that he should govern here his Church in earth continually, till the time that he brought them to eternal life.
  4. Daniel 7:15 Through the strangeness of the vision.

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