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Later text
and among the lampstands was One like the Son of Man, dressed in a long robe, with a golden sash around His chest. The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire. His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters. He held in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
Earlier text
Daniel 10:6BSB
His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
John's description of the glorified Christ in Revelation 1:13-16 draws heavily on Daniel 10:6, where Daniel encounters a heavenly figure whose "eyes were like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude." The verbal parallels are extensive: eyes of fire, feet of bronze, thunderous voice. However, John escalates the imagery — this figure is not merely angelic but is identified as "the First and the Last" who was dead and is alive (Rev 1:17-18), making a divine claim that exceeds Daniel's angelic visitor. The theophanic appearance that overwhelmed Daniel is now revealed to be a Christophany — Christ in His glorified, post-resurrection state, wielding absolute authority over life, death, and the churches. The prostration of both Daniel and John underscores the continuity of the divine encounter across the testaments.