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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.

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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).