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Intertextuality Pair
Echo
Later text
In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence. And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
Earlier text
Psalm 80:17BSB
Let Your hand be upon the man at Your right hand, on the son of man You have raised up for Yourself.
Psalm 80:17 prays, "Let Your hand be upon the man at Your right hand, on the son of man (בֶּן־אָדָם, ben-ʾadam) You have raised up for Yourself" — the one OT use of "son of man" outside Ezekiel and Psalm 8 that carries a quasi-messianic, representative-deliverer charge. The "man at Your right hand" is Israel personified or her king, the agent through whom God will restore the ruined vine and save His people. Daniel 7:13-14 brings this hope to its apocalyptic climax: the figure "like a son of man" is led into the presence of the Ancient of Days and given everlasting dominion over all nations. The link is a longitudinal echo rather than a citation — Daniel does not quote Psalm 80 — but the shared title and the shared movement (a representative son of man drawn near to God for the rescue and rule of His people) make Psalm 80:17 part of the prophetic substrate from which Daniel's vision emerges. The trajectory runs from a prayer for the man at God's right hand to the vision of the Son of Man enthroned at God's right hand, fused by Jesus with Psalm 110:1 (Mark 14:62). The telos is the Shepherd-King of Psalm 80 finally seen reigning — the One whose face, when it shines on us, saves (Ps 80:19), and whom to behold is to be restored.
▸ The Son of Man Receiving Dominion